ancestry
noun /ˈænsestri/
/ˈænsestri/
[countable, usually singular, uncountable] (plural ancestries)
- the family or the race of people that you come from
（统称）祖宗，祖先；列祖列宗 - to have Scottish ancestry
祖籍苏格兰 - He was able to trace his ancestry back over 1 000 years.
他可追祖溯宗至 1 000 多年以前。
Topics Historyc1, Family and relationshipsc1- Humans share a common ancestry with chimpanzees.
人类与黑猩猩拥有共同的祖先。 - His eyes owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry.
爱尔兰祖先给了他一双碧蓝的眼睛。 - (figurative) The company claims an ancestry going back to 1727.
该公司称其历史可追溯到 1727 年。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- common
- shared
- African
- …
- claim
- have
- share
- …
- go back to
- be of Irish, German, etc. ancestry
词源Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’. - to have Scottish ancestry