Definition of ancestry in English:

ancestry

nounPlural ancestriesˈansɛstriˈænˌsɛstri

1One's family or ethnic descent.
祖先
he was proud of his Irish ancestry
Example sentencesExamples
- Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.
- A criollo in Argentina is a person or a family descended from Spanish ancestry, in other words, no added mixture of non-Spanish blood.
- Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port.
- There's no acting in our family ancestry, so the path to it wasn't clear at all.
- It has been in the Teen family and its ancestry since 1886.
- To a large extent, the linguistic classification corresponds to the historical records regarding the ancestry of East Asians.
- The result is a genealogist's dream, for not only does he sketch the families, he also records their ancestry and their ties to others in the county.
- Once they're gone, information about your ancestry along with interesting family lore is also gone forever unless the knowledge has been passed on to the next generation.
- My father's family traces its ancestry there back 900 years.
- McGhie traced his ancestry back by recording the names, birth years and birthplaces of his ancestors.
- Having been raised in an Italian ancestry family of ten children I thought I was pretty used to chaos.
- It's hardly a big number - only about 1.5% of those claiming a specific ethnic ancestry named Scotch-Irish.
- Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest.
- Presumably because of their Jewish ancestry, the family fled to England in 1939.
- Our teeth tell us something about our ancestry, ethnic background, and age, our environment and our health.
- A group of nomad families sharing a common ancestry is more likely to deal with the challenges of the desert.
- The Davis and the Somes families traced their ancestry to Cape Ann's earliest settlers.
- In the ancestry of our family, there had only ever been one child - hence, only one cross.
- So she has been following up her family ancestry.
- Today, any Jew - regardless of ethnic ancestry - who wishes to live in Israel is entitled to full and equal Israeli citizenship.
Synonyms
ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents
family tree
lineage, line, descent, family, parentage, extraction, origin, derivation, genealogy, heredity, pedigree, blood, bloodline, stock, strain, roots
rare filiation, stirps
1. 1.1 The evolutionary or genetic line of descent of an animal or plant.
  （动植物的）世系，遗传系统；演化
  the ancestry of the rose is extremely complicated
  玫瑰花的遗传、进化非常复杂。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Today's tuberous begonias are highly bred plants of South American ancestry.
  Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common ancestry of genes and genome organization.
  The bitterest pill to swallow for any Christian who attempts to ‘make peace’ with Darwin is the presumed animal ancestry of man.
  Evolutionists do not feel compelled to prove their claim that similarity necessarily means common evolutionary ancestry - they assume it.
  Evolutionists sought the ancestry of the tetrapods among the lobe-finned fishes.
  Humans did not evolve out of an animal ancestry.
  Simplicity and antiquity of green algae have long been accepted as evidence of their apparent ancestry to land plants.
  Lastly, Feduccia advocated the notion that convergent evolution may make the ancestry of birds unknowable.
  As a supplement to comparisons among natural populations, experimental evolution offers the advantages of known ancestries and constant, reproducible selective environments.
  When a coalescence event occurs, two lines of ancestry are picked, uniformly at random, and are coalesced to form one resulting line.
  But it still sits in our DNA, one of many useless remnants testifying to our evolutionary ancestry.
  Evolution cannot be right because scientists do not agree on the mechanism for natural selection and ancestry of various species.
  These are aspects of the body that are claimed to be useless leftovers from our animal ancestry.
  As we have often pointed out, similarity does not mean proof of common ancestry or evolutionary relatedness.
  Coalescent theory describes the genetic ancestry of a sample and provides the tools for the analysis of intraspecies molecular data.
  Closely related species will tend to share more characters through common ancestry than through independent evolution.
  Pandas are carnivores because they belong to a set of animals with a common ancestry - true bears.
  Estimates of hybrid frequency are conservative because of the limited number of genetic markers available to characterize genetic ancestry.
  The results of a four-year, £10m-plus project to crack the genetic code of chickens will be released this week, along with a full analysis of their evolution and ancestry.
  Evolution deals with the common ancestry of life on earth.
  Synonyms
  congenital characteristics, congenital traits, genetics, genetic make-up, genes
2The origin or background of something.
〈喻〉起源，滥觞
the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry
该书追溯了女性诗歌的滥觞。
Example sentencesExamples
- This class is also called ‘tinkers’: whether this name has a common ancestry for both books or this is just a coincidence, I'm not sure.
- Seen in this light, contemporary Taiwanese nationalism belongs to a political family with a well-established ancestry.
- This is because the African Republic and the Islamic Union have a common ancestry that originated in Northern Africa several thousand years ago.
- I believe that reading children's pictorial books that depict the ancestry of different continents with children can make global education meaningful.
- Neither hotel, it should be said, is shy about installing bright Scandinavian mod-cons to the detriment of its historical ancestry.

Origin

Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor).

Definition of ancestry in US English:

ancestry

nounˈænˌsɛstriˈanˌsestrē

1One's family or ethnic descent.
祖先
his Viking ancestry
Example sentencesExamples
- In the ancestry of our family, there had only ever been one child - hence, only one cross.
- It's hardly a big number - only about 1.5% of those claiming a specific ethnic ancestry named Scotch-Irish.
- Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.
- It has been in the Teen family and its ancestry since 1886.
- To a large extent, the linguistic classification corresponds to the historical records regarding the ancestry of East Asians.
- Today, any Jew - regardless of ethnic ancestry - who wishes to live in Israel is entitled to full and equal Israeli citizenship.
- Having been raised in an Italian ancestry family of ten children I thought I was pretty used to chaos.
- McGhie traced his ancestry back by recording the names, birth years and birthplaces of his ancestors.
- Our teeth tell us something about our ancestry, ethnic background, and age, our environment and our health.
- A criollo in Argentina is a person or a family descended from Spanish ancestry, in other words, no added mixture of non-Spanish blood.
- Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port.
- The result is a genealogist's dream, for not only does he sketch the families, he also records their ancestry and their ties to others in the county.
- There's no acting in our family ancestry, so the path to it wasn't clear at all.
- So she has been following up her family ancestry.
- The Davis and the Somes families traced their ancestry to Cape Ann's earliest settlers.
- My father's family traces its ancestry there back 900 years.
- Once they're gone, information about your ancestry along with interesting family lore is also gone forever unless the knowledge has been passed on to the next generation.
- Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest.
- Presumably because of their Jewish ancestry, the family fled to England in 1939.
- A group of nomad families sharing a common ancestry is more likely to deal with the challenges of the desert.
Synonyms
ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents
1. 1.1 The evolutionary or genetic line of descent of an animal or plant.
  （动植物的）世系，遗传系统；演化
  the ancestry of the rose is extremely complicated
  玫瑰花的遗传、进化非常复杂。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Estimates of hybrid frequency are conservative because of the limited number of genetic markers available to characterize genetic ancestry.
  Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common ancestry of genes and genome organization.
  The results of a four-year, £10m-plus project to crack the genetic code of chickens will be released this week, along with a full analysis of their evolution and ancestry.
  Evolutionists do not feel compelled to prove their claim that similarity necessarily means common evolutionary ancestry - they assume it.
  Pandas are carnivores because they belong to a set of animals with a common ancestry - true bears.
  Lastly, Feduccia advocated the notion that convergent evolution may make the ancestry of birds unknowable.
  Evolution deals with the common ancestry of life on earth.
  Today's tuberous begonias are highly bred plants of South American ancestry.
  Closely related species will tend to share more characters through common ancestry than through independent evolution.
  Coalescent theory describes the genetic ancestry of a sample and provides the tools for the analysis of intraspecies molecular data.
  Simplicity and antiquity of green algae have long been accepted as evidence of their apparent ancestry to land plants.
  But it still sits in our DNA, one of many useless remnants testifying to our evolutionary ancestry.
  When a coalescence event occurs, two lines of ancestry are picked, uniformly at random, and are coalesced to form one resulting line.
  These are aspects of the body that are claimed to be useless leftovers from our animal ancestry.
  The bitterest pill to swallow for any Christian who attempts to ‘make peace’ with Darwin is the presumed animal ancestry of man.
  Evolutionists sought the ancestry of the tetrapods among the lobe-finned fishes.
  As a supplement to comparisons among natural populations, experimental evolution offers the advantages of known ancestries and constant, reproducible selective environments.
  As we have often pointed out, similarity does not mean proof of common ancestry or evolutionary relatedness.
  Evolution cannot be right because scientists do not agree on the mechanism for natural selection and ancestry of various species.
  Humans did not evolve out of an animal ancestry.
  Synonyms
  congenital characteristics, congenital traits, genetics, genetic make-up, genes
2The origin or background of something.
〈喻〉起源，滥觞
the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry
该书追溯了女性诗歌的滥觞。
Example sentencesExamples
- Neither hotel, it should be said, is shy about installing bright Scandinavian mod-cons to the detriment of its historical ancestry.
- This is because the African Republic and the Islamic Union have a common ancestry that originated in Northern Africa several thousand years ago.
- Seen in this light, contemporary Taiwanese nationalism belongs to a political family with a well-established ancestry.
- I believe that reading children's pictorial books that depict the ancestry of different continents with children can make global education meaningful.
- This class is also called ‘tinkers’: whether this name has a common ancestry for both books or this is just a coincidence, I'm not sure.

Origin

Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor).

词汇	ancestry
释义	Definition of ancestry in English: ancestry nounPlural ancestriesˈansɛstriˈænˌsɛstri 1One's family or ethnic descent. 祖先 he was proud of his Irish ancestry Example sentencesExamples Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah. A criollo in Argentina is a person or a family descended from Spanish ancestry, in other words, no added mixture of non-Spanish blood. Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port. There's no acting in our family ancestry, so the path to it wasn't clear at all. It has been in the Teen family and its ancestry since 1886. To a large extent, the linguistic classification corresponds to the historical records regarding the ancestry of East Asians. The result is a genealogist's dream, for not only does he sketch the families, he also records their ancestry and their ties to others in the county. Once they're gone, information about your ancestry along with interesting family lore is also gone forever unless the knowledge has been passed on to the next generation. My father's family traces its ancestry there back 900 years. McGhie traced his ancestry back by recording the names, birth years and birthplaces of his ancestors. Having been raised in an Italian ancestry family of ten children I thought I was pretty used to chaos. It's hardly a big number - only about 1.5% of those claiming a specific ethnic ancestry named Scotch-Irish. Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest. Presumably because of their Jewish ancestry, the family fled to England in 1939. Our teeth tell us something about our ancestry, ethnic background, and age, our environment and our health. A group of nomad families sharing a common ancestry is more likely to deal with the challenges of the desert. The Davis and the Somes families traced their ancestry to Cape Ann's earliest settlers. In the ancestry of our family, there had only ever been one child - hence, only one cross. So she has been following up her family ancestry. Today, any Jew - regardless of ethnic ancestry - who wishes to live in Israel is entitled to full and equal Israeli citizenship. Synonyms ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents family tree lineage, line, descent, family, parentage, extraction, origin, derivation, genealogy, heredity, pedigree, blood, bloodline, stock, strain, roots rare filiation, stirps 1.1 The evolutionary or genetic line of descent of an animal or plant. （动植物的）世系，遗传系统；演化 the ancestry of the rose is extremely complicated 玫瑰花的遗传、进化非常复杂。 Example sentencesExamples Today's tuberous begonias are highly bred plants of South American ancestry. Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common ancestry of genes and genome organization. The bitterest pill to swallow for any Christian who attempts to ‘make peace’ with Darwin is the presumed animal ancestry of man. Evolutionists do not feel compelled to prove their claim that similarity necessarily means common evolutionary ancestry - they assume it. Evolutionists sought the ancestry of the tetrapods among the lobe-finned fishes. Humans did not evolve out of an animal ancestry. Simplicity and antiquity of green algae have long been accepted as evidence of their apparent ancestry to land plants. Lastly, Feduccia advocated the notion that convergent evolution may make the ancestry of birds unknowable. As a supplement to comparisons among natural populations, experimental evolution offers the advantages of known ancestries and constant, reproducible selective environments. When a coalescence event occurs, two lines of ancestry are picked, uniformly at random, and are coalesced to form one resulting line. But it still sits in our DNA, one of many useless remnants testifying to our evolutionary ancestry. Evolution cannot be right because scientists do not agree on the mechanism for natural selection and ancestry of various species. These are aspects of the body that are claimed to be useless leftovers from our animal ancestry. As we have often pointed out, similarity does not mean proof of common ancestry or evolutionary relatedness. Coalescent theory describes the genetic ancestry of a sample and provides the tools for the analysis of intraspecies molecular data. Closely related species will tend to share more characters through common ancestry than through independent evolution. Pandas are carnivores because they belong to a set of animals with a common ancestry - true bears. Estimates of hybrid frequency are conservative because of the limited number of genetic markers available to characterize genetic ancestry. The results of a four-year, £10m-plus project to crack the genetic code of chickens will be released this week, along with a full analysis of their evolution and ancestry. Evolution deals with the common ancestry of life on earth. Synonyms congenital characteristics, congenital traits, genetics, genetic make-up, genes 2The origin or background of something. 〈喻〉起源，滥觞 the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry 该书追溯了女性诗歌的滥觞。 Example sentencesExamples This class is also called ‘tinkers’: whether this name has a common ancestry for both books or this is just a coincidence, I'm not sure. Seen in this light, contemporary Taiwanese nationalism belongs to a political family with a well-established ancestry. This is because the African Republic and the Islamic Union have a common ancestry that originated in Northern Africa several thousand years ago. I believe that reading children's pictorial books that depict the ancestry of different continents with children can make global education meaningful. Neither hotel, it should be said, is shy about installing bright Scandinavian mod-cons to the detriment of its historical ancestry. Origin Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor). Definition of ancestry in US English: ancestry nounˈænˌsɛstriˈanˌsestrē 1One's family or ethnic descent. 祖先 his Viking ancestry Example sentencesExamples In the ancestry of our family, there had only ever been one child - hence, only one cross. It's hardly a big number - only about 1.5% of those claiming a specific ethnic ancestry named Scotch-Irish. Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah. It has been in the Teen family and its ancestry since 1886. To a large extent, the linguistic classification corresponds to the historical records regarding the ancestry of East Asians. Today, any Jew - regardless of ethnic ancestry - who wishes to live in Israel is entitled to full and equal Israeli citizenship. Having been raised in an Italian ancestry family of ten children I thought I was pretty used to chaos. McGhie traced his ancestry back by recording the names, birth years and birthplaces of his ancestors. Our teeth tell us something about our ancestry, ethnic background, and age, our environment and our health. A criollo in Argentina is a person or a family descended from Spanish ancestry, in other words, no added mixture of non-Spanish blood. Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port. The result is a genealogist's dream, for not only does he sketch the families, he also records their ancestry and their ties to others in the county. There's no acting in our family ancestry, so the path to it wasn't clear at all. So she has been following up her family ancestry. The Davis and the Somes families traced their ancestry to Cape Ann's earliest settlers. My father's family traces its ancestry there back 900 years. Once they're gone, information about your ancestry along with interesting family lore is also gone forever unless the knowledge has been passed on to the next generation. Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest. Presumably because of their Jewish ancestry, the family fled to England in 1939. A group of nomad families sharing a common ancestry is more likely to deal with the challenges of the desert. Synonyms ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents 1.1 The evolutionary or genetic line of descent of an animal or plant. （动植物的）世系，遗传系统；演化 the ancestry of the rose is extremely complicated 玫瑰花的遗传、进化非常复杂。 Example sentencesExamples Estimates of hybrid frequency are conservative because of the limited number of genetic markers available to characterize genetic ancestry. Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common ancestry of genes and genome organization. The results of a four-year, £10m-plus project to crack the genetic code of chickens will be released this week, along with a full analysis of their evolution and ancestry. Evolutionists do not feel compelled to prove their claim that similarity necessarily means common evolutionary ancestry - they assume it. Pandas are carnivores because they belong to a set of animals with a common ancestry - true bears. Lastly, Feduccia advocated the notion that convergent evolution may make the ancestry of birds unknowable. Evolution deals with the common ancestry of life on earth. Today's tuberous begonias are highly bred plants of South American ancestry. Closely related species will tend to share more characters through common ancestry than through independent evolution. Coalescent theory describes the genetic ancestry of a sample and provides the tools for the analysis of intraspecies molecular data. Simplicity and antiquity of green algae have long been accepted as evidence of their apparent ancestry to land plants. But it still sits in our DNA, one of many useless remnants testifying to our evolutionary ancestry. When a coalescence event occurs, two lines of ancestry are picked, uniformly at random, and are coalesced to form one resulting line. These are aspects of the body that are claimed to be useless leftovers from our animal ancestry. The bitterest pill to swallow for any Christian who attempts to ‘make peace’ with Darwin is the presumed animal ancestry of man. Evolutionists sought the ancestry of the tetrapods among the lobe-finned fishes. As a supplement to comparisons among natural populations, experimental evolution offers the advantages of known ancestries and constant, reproducible selective environments. As we have often pointed out, similarity does not mean proof of common ancestry or evolutionary relatedness. Evolution cannot be right because scientists do not agree on the mechanism for natural selection and ancestry of various species. Humans did not evolve out of an animal ancestry. Synonyms congenital characteristics, congenital traits, genetics, genetic make-up, genes 2The origin or background of something. 〈喻〉起源，滥觞 the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry 该书追溯了女性诗歌的滥觞。 Example sentencesExamples Neither hotel, it should be said, is shy about installing bright Scandinavian mod-cons to the detriment of its historical ancestry. This is because the African Republic and the Islamic Union have a common ancestry that originated in Northern Africa several thousand years ago. Seen in this light, contemporary Taiwanese nationalism belongs to a political family with a well-established ancestry. I believe that reading children's pictorial books that depict the ancestry of different continents with children can make global education meaningful. This class is also called ‘tinkers’: whether this name has a common ancestry for both books or this is just a coincidence, I'm not sure. Origin Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor).
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