One entry found for ancestry.

Entry Word: ancestry
Function: noun
Text: the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended <a Cambodian immigrant who can trace her Khmer ancestry as far back as the 16th century>
Synonyms birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain
Related Words heredity, succession; family, house; kin, kindred, relations, relatives; race
Near Antonyms offspring; child, heir, inheritor, son, successor
Antonyms issue, posterity, progeny, seed