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Definition of ancestry noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

ancestry

noun

NAmE//ˈænsɛstri//

[countable, usually singular, uncountable] (pl. ancestries)

the family or the race of people that you come from to have Italian ancestry He was able to trace his ancestry back over 1,000 years.

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