Usually means: Biological lineage from historical families.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word ancestry:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ancestry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ancestry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ancestry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ancestry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ancestry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ancestry, ancestry: Wordnik
  7. ancestry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ancestry: Wiktionary
  9. ancestry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ancestry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ancestry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ancestry, ancestry: Dictionary.com
  13. ancestry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ancestry (United States Census), Ancestry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ancestry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ancestry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ancestry: Rhymezone
  18. ancestry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ancestry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ancestry: Free Dictionary
  21. ancestry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ancestry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. ancestry: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestry: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestry: Genealogy Glossary

(Note: See ancestries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of being ancestors
noun:  birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
noun:  A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended

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