transcription, транскрипция: [ ænsestə(r) ]
( ancestors)
1.
Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors...
He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
≠ descendant
N-COUNT : usu pl , with poss
2.
An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.
The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt...
≠ descendant
N-COUNT : usu N of n