Ancestor

Definition:

• (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
• (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
• (n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

Compare ancestor with other words:

ancestor vs. appraisal

ancestor vs. relative

ancestor vs. syngenesis

ancestor vs. ugrian

ancestor vs. dreaming

ancestor vs. implex

ancestor vs. foremother

ancestor vs. harbinger

ancestor vs. animal

ancestor vs. oak

ancestor vs. mobile

ancestor vs. senior

ancestor vs. founder

ancestor vs. stirp

ancestor vs. patrimonial

ancestor vs. dreamtime

ancestor vs. primogenitor

ancestor vs. ascendent

ancestor vs. consanguine

ancestor vs. protoplast

ancestor vs. ancestress

ancestor vs. assets

ancestor vs. matronymic

ancestor vs. predecessor

ancestor vs. pliocene

ancestor vs. genealogy

ancestor vs. pedigree

ancestor vs. polygenesis

ancestor vs. monogenesis

ancestor vs. forerunner

ancestor vs. forebear

ancestor vs. mythology

ancestor vs. thule

ancestor vs. consanguineous

ancestor vs. vestige

ancestor vs. sib

ancestor vs. shrine

ancestor vs. clan

ancestor vs. cognate

ancestor vs. ancestry

ancestor vs. ancestral

ancestor vs. descendant

ancestor vs. forefather

ancestor vs. progenitor

ancestor vs. offspring

ancestor vs. line

ancestor vs. people

ancestor vs. cousin

ancestor vs. mother

ancestor vs. antecedent