noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remote ancestor (= someone related to you, who lived a long time ago )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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It is the direct ancestor of the organization Daley inherited.
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Folk-song is the direct ancestor of lyric poetry, and the simplest artistic form that unites the Apolline and the Dionysiac.
distant
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Although the crabs' distant ancestors came from the sea, these are land crabs.
early
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Likewise, our early ancestors most probably sifted out the useful plants by scent, sight and intuition.
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After all, these were the most primitive people of all, our earliest ancestors .
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They were slanted somehow, and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu.
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The question has been frequently asked: Just how intelligent were our early modern ancestors ?
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Yet our early fire-raising ancestors hardly qualify as polluters.
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And yet, one aspect of the lives of our earliest ancestors still astonishes us.
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Marija Gimbutas Our earliest ancestors were nomads, travelers in small groups who followed the seasonal plants and the herds of reindeer.
human
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They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together.
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The human ancestors , in other words, were not even drop-outs, they were throw-outs.
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He had no human ancestor and he was himself only half human.
remote
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Its genes also hint at its remote ancestors .
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Our remote ancestors took two hundred million years to learn how to adapt to the land.
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Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.
wild
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Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of domesticated horses, and reveals it as being much the same as their wild ancestors .
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The wild ancestors of our domestic cats liked to eat freshly killed prey - they were not scavengers.
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Those refined beasts were a small sample of the diversity of their wild ancestors .
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All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor .
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Wild at heart Another much-fostered fallacy is that farm animals are now quite different from their wild and free ancestors .
■ NOUN
worship
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After all, these islands have been steeped for centuries in everything from witchcraft to ancestor worship .
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The sacred, the past, ancestor worship seem to be the chosen grounds in most cases.
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Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.
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There is no clearer case of ancestor worship in the Western world.
■ VERB
become
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This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
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Cain becomes an ancestor , and Abel does not.
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All the known forms were fitted into a single sequence so that the Neanderthals became our own immediate ancestors .
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A gene has only one criterion by which posterity judges it: whether it becomes an ancestor of other genes.
descend
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Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors .
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All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
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All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor .
live
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The oldest are almost living ancestors .
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We live , like our ancestors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, in an age of anxiety and dread.
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They live , like their ancestors , in packs of a dozen or so.
share
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As descent always involves modification, resemblance decreases as a shared ancestor recedes into the past.
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Each is derived, no doubt, from some ancient shared ancestor .
trace
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For the genealogist, however, the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the festival of Obon, Japanese show respect to their dead ancestors.
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Most of Luke's ancestors were Italian.
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My ancestors originally came form Ireland.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 7 million years ago the ancestors of mankind began to diverge from the ancestors of modern chimpanzees.
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Blood, he tells us, was associated by our ancestors with iron, because of the red that hides within the ore.
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His ancestor had been Gia Long, the emperor whose cause had been helped by Pigneau de Behaine.
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It's no surprise to learn that she numbers among her ancestors the Brothers Grimm.
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It is also found at all levels, not just among our nearest evolutionary ancestors, the monkeys and the apes.
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Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
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There had been twelve of the chairs originally, made in 1750 for an ancestor of ours in Jamestown.
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This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.