plural ancestries
: a person's ancestors : the people who were in your family in past times
They claim to be of noble ancestry.
an Englishman of German ancestry = an Englishman who is German by ancestry
a person of unknown ancestry
She claims to be able to trace her ancestry all the way back to the earliest settlers.
They have different ancestries.
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“Ancestry.” Merriam-Webster.com Simple Definition, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/ancestry. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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