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ancestry
noun as in family predecessors; family history
Example Sentences
This country has a long history of folks wanting to be Native, and there are people in academia and in organizations who are benefiting pretty greatly from a created Indigenous ancestry that isn’t there.
There are several reasons why Thornton is a Liverpool fan, including his ancestry.
Mexico City — A California couple with Mexican roots went south for the holidays to visit relatives, an annual tradition among many U.S. residents of Mexican ancestry.
He compared Badenoch's approach to that of her predecessor, Rishi Sunak - the UK's first prime minister of Indian heritage - as "a brilliant young man" who "never denigrated his nation of ancestry".
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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