Ancestor synonyms
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Part of speech:
founder of the family
The definition of a progenitor is a direct ancestor, or source from which something develops.
The essential part or element; the basic core:
Forerunner is defined as something or someone that goes before to tells that something or someone is coming.
The definition of a founder is the person who discovers or establishes something.
Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
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The definition of a forebear is a person's ancestor.
A woman who gives birth to a child.
A thing followed or replaced by another thing, as in use
ancestors (related)
Relating to a taxonomic group that contains all the descendants of a single common ancestor. All clades , such as birds and placental mammals, are monophyletic.
ancestral (related)
(Gram.) The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
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lineage (related)
primogenitor
The earliest ancestor.
The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
cousin (related)
decendants (related)
kinfolk (related)
Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
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descendant (related)
The definition of a precursor is something or someone that came before.
materfamilias
The female head of a household
(Grammar) A relative pronoun.
A procreator; one who begets.
A man sharing the same racial, cultural, or national background as another.
(Informal) grandfather
The name used for one's grandma
(Linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.
ancestorial
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Having the same ancestor; closely related
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Tracing a line of descent
The definition of hereditary refers to something inherited through the family or passed down through the family.
polyphyletic
Relating to a taxonomic group that does not include the common ancestor of the members of the group and whose members have two or more separate origins. A group that consists of flying vertebrates would be polyphyletic, as bats and birds independently evolved flight and do not share a common ancestor.
progenitive
Being able to produce offspring, reproductive
progenitorial
(Name, person, proper) A masculine name
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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antecessor
1890, Grant Allen, The Great Taboo:
Appearance in an individual of some characteristic found in a remote ancestor but not in nearer ancestors
A group of living organisms that includes all the descendants sharing specific genetic traits of a common ancestor
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
(US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.
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(Military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
The definition of genealogy is the study of your ancestry and family history.
Authorship; origin.
One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
A male parent of an animal.
A female ancestor.
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precede (related)
precede (plural precedes) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
descendent (related)
grandfather (related)
A biological father.
The male grandparent of an animal, especially a domesticated animal such as a horse.
The works of an author or authors.
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A typical example of a class or category:
Grandmother is the mother of one of your parents.
procreator
One who procreates; a father or mother.
A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
The father and ruler of a family or tribe, as one of the founders of the ancient Hebrew families: in the Bible, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's twelve sons were patriarchs
paterfamilias
A man who is the head of a household or the father of a family.
Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
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kin (related)
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
buccinator
A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
progenitress
A female progenitor
progenitrix
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