ancestry
noun
family or ancestral descent; lineage.
ancestries
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pluralof ancestry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The features also reveal traces of Middle-East Eurasian and Austro-Asiactic ancestries, hinting at global migration and the mixing of ancient population groups.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
The blood samples in this dataset were collected from a cohort of 503 healthy donors of diverse Asian ancestries, spanning East, Southeast, and South Asian populations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Harris’ own blended ethno-racial background of Jamaican and Indian ancestries was a consequence of her parents' freedom.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Census making it easier in 2020 to identify multiple racial and ethnic ancestries, the percentage of multiracial Americans blossomed to 33.8 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
They have all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistibly in a space otherwise quite empty.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
