Ancestry vs Progenitor - What's the difference?
ancestry | progenitor |
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.
A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
(biology) An ancestral form of a species
(figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
(figuratively) Someone who originates something.
A founder.
As nouns the difference between ancestry and progenitor
is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while progenitor is a forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.ancestry
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* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)Noun
(ancestries)- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
progenitor
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* progenitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''Abraham alias Ibrahim is the progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.
- was the progenitor of the Internet.
