the family or the race of people that you come fromto have Scottish ancestryHe was able to trace his ancestry back over 1 000 years.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivecommon,shared,African,…verb + ancestryclaim,have,share,…ancestry + verbgo back tophrasesbe of Irish, German, etc. ancestrySeefull entrySee related entries:Family backgroundWord OriginMiddle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.Extra examplesHumans share a common ancestry with chimpanzees.She shares a common ancestry with the Queen.The company claims an ancestry going back to 1727.The two species have developed from a common ancestry.We can trace our ancestry back to the 16th century.His eyes owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry.
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