Ancestry synonyms
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family (related)
Used attributively.
Family relationship; kinship.
Ancestry:
family tree (related)
ancestors (related)
Plural form of progenitor
By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
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The social quality of your class in society.
Plural form of antecedent
In generative linguistics, the generation of a linguistic structure through an ordered or partially ordered series of operations on other structures, such as the creation of a surface structure from a deep structure, or of a complex word from its morphological components.
(Military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
family: ancestors
One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation
The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
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Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
Lineage is defined as the descendants of a common ancestor.
One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation
The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
(Biology) A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits:
A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
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posterity (related)
Future generations:
(Countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
(Informal) Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress:
Seeds considered as a group:
kin (related)
A relative or family member:
precede (related)
precede (plural precedes) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
The branch thus formed.
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the descendants of one individual
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
ancestory (related)
ancestor (related)
Find another word for ancestry. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ancestry, like: family, blood, origin, family tree, ancestors, progenitors, bloodline, parentage, antecedents, derivation and descent.