ANCESTOR


Meaning of ANCESTOR in English

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

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