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ancestry
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ancestry
n.
family origin, genealogy; line of descent
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Ancestor
An ancestor or forebear is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law the person from whom an estate has been inherited."
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ancestry
Noun
1. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
2. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
(synonym) lineage, derivation, filiation
(hypernym) inheritance, hereditary pattern
(hyponym) breed, strain
(attribute) purebred
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ancestry
n.
(rodinný) původ
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ancestry
Rzecz.
przodkowie; ród
