英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/

名詞

ancestry (countable and uncountable, plural ancestries)

1. The state of being ancestors.
2. Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
   • August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123

     Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:

     Tali: My people place a high value on family and ancestry. There's an unspoken expectation that I'll live up to my father's example.

3. A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.

   Synonym: lineage

   I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.

同意語

• provenance
• parentage
• descent

派生語

関連する語

• ancestor
• ancestral

参照

• “ancestry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.