Meaning Of The Word Ancestor

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Ancestor Meaning

Ancestor Definition
Ancestor Definition

What's The Definition Of Ancestor?

ancestor
Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
countable noun: An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.

ancestor in American English
any person from whom one is descended, esp. one earlier in a family line than a grandparent; forefather; forebear
to be an ancestor of
noun: a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor

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