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Ancestry vs Bloodline - What's the difference?

ancestry | bloodline |

As nouns the difference between ancestry and bloodline

is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while bloodline is the abstract link between a person and their ancestors.

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

    bloodline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.
  • The pedigree of an animal.
  • By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
  • * 2002 , Tampa Bay Magazine - Sep-Oct 2002 , Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 63:
    • No other Sport Utility Vehicle has a bloodline like the Cayenne.