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Synonyms for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə strian·ces·t·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun
the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonyms:
personal credit line, inception, cable, business, billet, stemma, origination, rakehell, store, beginning, filiation, roue, agate line, lineage, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, declivity, farm animal, linage, seam, inventory, bloodline, root, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, production line, job, occupation, assembly line, parenthood, contrast, downslope, gillyflower, birth, product line, livestock, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, rake, melody, decline, derivation, strain, neckcloth, dividing line, rootage, transmission line, breed, ocellus, gunstock, line of descent, argumentation, profligate, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, fund, rip, line of business, pedigree, extraction, declination, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, line of products, origin, stock certificate, fall, communication channel, caudex, telephone line, credit line, declension, source, broth, line of reasoning, tune, note, simple eye, argumentancestry, lineage, derivation, filiationnoun
inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Synonyms:
parentage, lineage, etymologizing, stock, stemma, descent, blood, deriving, origin, linage, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, bloodline, filiation, derivation
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#71 | business | |
#219 | store | |
#228 | line | |
#419 | source | |
#428 | course | |
#429 | job | |
#434 | stock | |
#460 | note | |
#478 | air | |
#1143 | cable | |
#1193 | channel | |
#1200 | fund | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1323 | blood | |
#1674 | beginning | |
#1955 | root | |
#2077 | argument | |
#2223 | birth | |
#2518 | origin | |
#3371 | inventory | |
#3990 | contrast | |
#4385 | pipeline | |
#4578 | occupation | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5858 | tune | |
#6612 | strain | |
#7432 | rip | |
#7484 | breed | |
#8143 | livestock | |
#8602 | extraction | |
#11131 | melody | |
#12080 | ancestry | |
#12456 | ancestors | |
#13070 | descent | |
#15349 | pedigree | |
#15733 | inception | |
#15790 | lineage | |
#17599 | ancestor | |
#19657 | rake | |
#19758 | seam | |
#20045 | parenthood | |
#20226 | derivation | |
#20390 | wrinkle | |
#22581 | broth | |
#22771 | ancestral | |
#22907 | billet | |
#27200 | origination | |
#28838 | deriving | |
#29173 | progeny | |
#29367 | crease | |
#38177 | declination | |
#45177 | argumentation | |
#45796 | parentage | |
#46467 | demarcation | |
#47000 | furrow | |
#55809 | bloodline | |
#65224 | crinkle | |
#107022 | profligate | |
#116269 | downslope | |
#117527 | declension | |
#146594 | gunstock | |
#150043 | roue | |
#173871 | linage | |
#228340 | filiation | |
#253199 | declivity |
How to use ancestry in a sentence?
You can use DNA to identify disease risk, so (the world leaders) might be at risk for a disease, you could look and see if there could be some ancestry elements that could be exploited.
This year marks my father's 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of Karen Korematsu v. United States decision. At these milestones, it is a reminder that we must' Stand Up For What is Right' and' Stop Repeating History' by enacting a law that will ensure what happened to my father and 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry can never be done to anyone again in the United States.
If you look at the genetics of people who lived during the Roman period and the genetics of people who are living there today, you would think that there was just this continuity, you would think that nothing happened between the Roman period and today, and you would miss that for a certain period of time the population of Lebanon included Europeans and people with mixed ancestry. After the fighting had finished, the mixed generation married into the local population and the genetic traces of the Crusaders were quickly lost.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
The bones don't just tell us what animal it was, but also tell us a number of other things, such as its ancestry( through ancient DNA) and its diet( through chemical isotope analysis).
Translations for ancestry
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- أصلArabic
- llinatge, ascendènciaCatalan, Valencian
- původCzech
- VorfahrenGerman
- γενεαλογία, γενεαλογικό δένδρο, καταγωγή, πρόγονοιGreek
- linaje, ascendenciaSpanish
- ascendanceFrench
- sinnsearachdScottish Gaelic
- ascendenciaGalician
- ascendenza (it)Italian
- שׁוֹשׁHebrew
- afstamming, vooroudersDutch
- ættNorwegian
- pochodzeniePolish
- ascendênciaPortuguese
- родосло́вная, происхожде́ниеRussian
- порекло, porijeklo, poreklo, preci, поријекло, postanakSerbo-Croatian
- anorSwedish
- บรรพบุรุษThai
- soyTurkish
- نسبUrdu
- tổ tiênVietnamese
- אפשטאםYiddish
- 祖先Chinese
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