Meaning Of The Word Ancestral
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Ancestral Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Ancestral?
ancestral
You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time. ancestral in American English of or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors adjective: pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors ancestral in British English adjective: of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors noun: a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y |
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