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# ancestry

noun (ancestry, ancestries)

«ancestry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Your ancestry is all the people in your family who lived long before you, such as great-grandparents, and the places and groups they came from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#m1)

### In the lessons

In history and family-history projects it is about family trees and where families came from. Phrases: of Irish ancestry, trace your ancestry, ancestry test.

### Examples

- She is of Irish and Polish ancestry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x1)
- We drew a family tree to trace our ancestry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x2)
- Many Americans have European, African or Asian ancestry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x3)
- His ancestry goes back to Viking times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x4)
- DNA tests can tell you some things about your ancestry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x5)
- Ancestry is about the past; who you are is also about your choices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/#x6)

### Note

Related: ancestor (one person), ancestral. Ancestors are people before you; descendants come after you.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ancestry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ancestry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ancestry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ancestry.html) on Mova free.