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ancestry

/ˈænsestri/noun

उच्चारण ऐन्सेस्ट्री

वंश, कुल, पूर्वज, वंश-परंपरा

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noun
  1. 1

    [C, usually sing., U]

    the family or the ethnic group that somebody comes from; all the people in somebody's family who lived a long time ago

    वंश, कुल, पूर्वज, वंश-परंपरा

    • She is proud of her Rajput ancestry.
    • Radhika traced her ancestry back to a small village in Rajasthan.
    • people of mixed ancestry

    Synonyms lineage descent parentage origin extraction

    Opposite descendants posterity

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ancestor nounancestral adjective