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Ancestry vs Belonger - What's the difference?

ancestry | belonger |

As nouns the difference between ancestry and belonger

is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while belonger is one who belongs; a member.

ancestry

English

Alternative forms

* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)

Noun

(ancestries)
  • Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
    • Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
  • A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

    • Related terms

    * ancestor

    belonger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who belongs; a member.
  • * 1997 , John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style (page 156)
    • While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.
  • (UK) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
  • * 1999 , Yash P. Ghai, Hong Kong's new constitutional order (page 158)
    • All British subjects (i.e., any Commonwealth citizens) born in Hong Kong were belongers .

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