Entry Word: ancestry

Function: noun

Meaning: the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended <a Cambodian immigrant who can trace her Khmer ancestry as far back as the 16th century>

Synonyms birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain

Related Words heredity, succession; family, house; kin, kindred, relations, relatives; race

Near Antonyms offspring; child, heir, inheritor, son, successor

Antonyms issue, posterity, progeny, seed