Ancestry synonyms
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family (related)
Used attributively.
The social quality of your class in society.
antecedents
Plural form of antecedent
Family relationship; kinship.
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.
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
Ancestry:
(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.
posterity (related)
Future generations:
(Countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
(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.
the descendants of one individual
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
progenitors
Plural form of progenitor
Find another word for ancestry. In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ancestry, like: family, parentage, pedigree, antecedents, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, family: ancestors, genealogy and heredity.