Ancestry vs Clan - What's the difference?
ancestry | clan | Related terms |
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Any association of people behaving clannishly.
(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
A badger colony.
Ancestry is a related term of clan.
As nouns the difference between ancestry and clan
is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while clan is .ancestry
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Alternative forms
* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)Noun
(ancestries)- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
