ancestry
noun
[ ˈansɛstri ]
• one's family or ethnic descent.
• "he was proud of his Irish ancestry"
Similar:
ancestors,
forebears,
forefathers,
progenitors,
antecedents,
family tree,
lineage,
line,
descent,
family,
parentage,
extraction,
origin,
derivation,
genealogy,
heredity,
pedigree,
blood,
bloodline,
stock,
strain,
roots,
filiation,
stirps,
• the origin or background of something.
• "the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry"
Origin:
Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor).
