<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(plural) ancestries</li><li>family or ancestral descent; lineage</li><li>honorable or distinguished descent: famous by title and ancestry</li><li>a series of ancestors: His ancestry settled Utah</li><li>the inception or origin of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style</li><li>the history or developmental process of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>stock</li><li>genealogy</li><li>pedigree</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>line</li><li>family</li></ul>