Ancestry
- n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
- n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.