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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'CESTRY, n. A series of ancestors, or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. Hence, birth or honorable descent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
2: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. line of descent ; lineage; especially honorable, noble, or aristocratic descent 2. persons initiating or comprising a line of descent ; ancestors

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 one's (esp. remote) family descent. 2 one's ancestors collectively. Etymology: ME alt. of OF ancesserie (as ANCESTOR)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ancestry An"ces*try, n. [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See Ancestor.] 1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. --Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ancestries) Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people. ...a family who could trace their ancestry back to the sixteenth century. N-COUNT: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Lineage, family, race, house, line of ancestors, line. 2. Pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent. 3. High birth, noble blood, gentle blood, nobility, hereditary rank.

Moby Thesaurus

affiliation, agnate, agnation, alliance, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relationship, blood relative, blue blood, breed, breeding, brotherhood, brothership, clansman, cognate, cognation, collateral, collateral relative, common ancestry, common descent, connection, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, derivation, descent, distaff side, distant relation, distinction, enate, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, fraternity, genteelness, gentility, german, honorable descent, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, near relation, next of kin, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, origin, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pedigree, people, posterity, propinquity, quality, race, rank, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, royalty, sib, sibling, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, source, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, sword side, ties of blood, tribesman, uterine kin