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English
Noun
Ancestor (plural Ancestors)- One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
- An earlier type; a progenitor
- (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
Adjectives for Ancestor
rude; far-away; august; pious; dim; divine; symbolical; barbaric; martial; devout; renowned; remote; illustrious; cave-dwelling; heroic; primitive; forgotten; venerable; respected; roistering; adventurous; astute; seafaring; contemporary; solitary-minded; immortal; tainted; prehistoric; talented; frugal; lineal; immigrant; blue-blooded ; aristocratic; benighted.
Verbs for Ancestor
address; anger; bury with; descend from; hark back to; honor; idealize; idolize; inherit from; invoke; propitiate; renounce; revere; sleep with; swear by; trace; venerate; worship; bequeaths; blesses; counsels; fades; foreruns; influences; precedes; vouchsafes.
Thesaurus
ancestress; announcer; antecedent; ascendant; avant-garde; begetter; bellwether; buccinator; bushwhacker; explorer; forebear; forefather; foregoer; forerunner; front runner; frontiersman; fugleman; grandparent; groundbreaker; guide; harbinger; herald; innovator; lead runner; leader; messenger; parent; pathfinder; pioneer; point; precedent; precursor; predecessor; premise; primogenitor; procreator; progenitor; progenitress; progenitrix; prototype; scout; stormy petrel; trailblazer; trailbreaker; vanguard; vaunt-courier; voortrekker
Etymology
Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor one who goes before; the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin accusative antecessorem, from antecedo (“to go before”); ante (“before”) + cedo (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
Pronunciation
Notes
- There is a rare feminine form ancestress
