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Meanings of ancestor in English

Portuguese
ancestral
Catalan
avantpassat
Spanish
ascendente

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

      ancestral
      Russian
      предок
      Portuguese
      ancestral
      Catalan
      ancestre
      Spanish
      ancestral

      Person from whom another person is descended.

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          предок

          Person from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any number of generations.

                Usage of ancestor in English
                1
                Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor.
                Wired
                2
                The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor, for example.
                BBC
                3
                However, in peach ancestor, these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
                Pubmed
                4
                Finally forced to honor his ancestor two thousand years after the fact.
                Sign of the cross
                5
                Yes, the portrait of my ancestor that I brought back from France.
                Ghosts
                6
                Was the ultraviolence inherent to chimpanzee culture present in our common ancestor?
                The Guardian
                7
                The intermediate lowland type was probably the ancestor of the modern animal.
                The Story of Evolution
                8
                My clan stood with your ancestor against Plenimar in the Great War.
                Oracle's Queen
                9
                Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
                WATER FOR ELEPHANT
                10
                If the ancestor survives, then the new species has arisen by branching.
                The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
                11
                The besetting propensity of my ancestor soon began to appear in Leaplow.
                The Monikins
                12
                An ancestor of the same name was among the country's independence heroes.
                The Guardian
                13
                Haplotype analyses indicated that each recurrent deletion had a single common ancestor.
                Pubmed
                14
                Monkeys and us have a common ancestor and you can prove it.
                Wired
                15
                These three genes and HLA-Bw58 are postulated to share a common ancestor.
                Pubmed
                16
                Facebook Twitter Pinterest The hypothetical placental mammal ancestor, a small, insect-eating animal.
                The Guardian
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                Ancestor through the time
                Ancestor across language varieties
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