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Another word for ancestor

NOUN

  1. A person from whom one is descended

    See also:

    precede

    kin

  2. One that precedes, as in time

    See also:

    precede

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Another word for ancestor

NOUN

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Sentence Examples

  • It was their ancestor who wrote the letters I've got!

  • It's important for 'em to stay here—in the same place where ancestor Annie lived.

  • It was the natural yearning of that portion, any portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us.

  • Possibly there is a trace of ancestor worship even here; but the two usages have diverged.

  • AEACUS, in Greek legend, ancestor of the Aeacidae, was the son of Zeus and Aegina, daughter of the river-god Asopus.

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