ancestor

Speech parts

1. ancestor - Noun

2. ancestor - Verb

Meaning

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; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

source root predecessor forefather forebear origin parent founder forerunner progenitor antecedent ascendant grandparent ascendent papa
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Antonyms

descendant dauphin child spawn brat generation
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Hypernyms

relative relation

Hyponyms

father progenitor sire forefather primogenitor foremother

Phrases with the word

last universal common ancestor early human ancestor given ancestor ancestor's day ancestor tracer human ancestor

Anagrams

sortance Careston carstone Castrone Conatser entosarc Rostance sarconet Screaton

Examples

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things. Francis Collins

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. David Henry Hwang

No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings. Robin Lane Fox

To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor. African Proverb

Death is unable to speak of the ancestor. Burkina Faso Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Ancenis anceps ancestim ancestor chart ancestor cult Ancestor Night