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ancestry
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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
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