ancestor

[US]/ˈænsestə(r)/
[UK]/ˈænsestər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. forebear, progenitor, forerunner

Phrases & Collocations

ancestor worship

Example Sentences

This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

My ancestors came from Italian.

the rugs they make today remain faithful to their ancestors' methods.

our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago.

The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people.

Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

ancestors who were farmers;

The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.

he could trace his ancestors back to James the First.

The apical cell and basal cell act as the ancestor cells of frond and rhizoid.

The common ancestor of the glasswing is long extinct but the clade it belongs to is known as the clearwing clade.

It does not allow interception of events targeted to the capturer's ancestors, its siblings, or its sibling's descendants.

The cognition of the villagers at Guanlin about the godship of Ancestor Spirit and Guardian Spirit has deep meaning.But their cognition of regarding Guanyu as the God of Wealth is larruping.

Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them our ancestors) fill the gap between Lucy the australopithecine and modern humans.

The little bancha are listening to the legends of their ancestors' origins. Ironically, the carvings on the pillars are actually copied from Africa.

The 23 million-year-old creature was not a direct ancestor of today's seals, sea lions and walruses, a group known collectively as pinnipeds.

If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

Real-world Examples

In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors.

Source: The Call of the Wild

Some lessons, he said, can be learned from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Source: VOA Standard May 2015 Collection

Natural selection rewarded our ancestors for collaboration, and for forming connections with each other.

Source: Popular Science Essays

It's one of your most important ancestors.

Source: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology

Life has diversified enormously, but from a single common ancestor.

Source: Environment and Science

This cell became the ancestor of all animals on this planet.

Source: Kurzgesagt science animation

He said he saw " my ancestors and yours" in her image.

Source: VOA Slow English - America

It was not a direct ancestor of the millipedes that live now.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

These animals last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

Instead, they were influenced by the art of the islanders' ancestors.

Source: VOA Slow English - Entertainment

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