ALL meanings of ancestor
an·ces·tor
A a - countable noun ancestor Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended. 3
- countable noun ancestor An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. 3
- noun ancestor a person from whom another is directly descended, esp someone more distant than a grandparent; forefather 3
- noun ancestor an early type of animal or plant from which a later, usually dissimilar, type has evolved 3
- noun ancestor a person or thing regarded as a forerunner of a later person or thing 3
- noun ancestor any person from whom one is descended, esp. one earlier in a family line than a grandparent; forefather; forebear 3
- noun ancestor an early type of animal from which later kinds have evolved 3
- noun ancestor anything regarded as a precursor or forerunner of a later thing 3
- noun ancestor the deceased person from whom an estate has been inherited 3
- verb transitive ancestor to be an ancestor of 3
- noun ancestor a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor. 1
- noun ancestor Biology. the actual or hypothetical form or stock from which an organism has developed or descended. 1
- noun ancestor an object, idea, style, or occurrence serving as a prototype, forerunner, or inspiration to a later one: The balloon is an ancestor of the modern dirigible. 1
- noun ancestor a person who serves as an influence or model for another; one from whom mental, artistic, spiritual, etc., descent is claimed: a philosophical ancestor. 1
- noun ancestor Law. a person from whom an heir derives an inheritance. 1
- noun ancestor human: predecessor 1
- noun ancestor species: earlier form 1
- noun ancestor idea, invention: earlier version 1
- noun ancestor A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. 1
- noun ancestor One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather. 0
- noun ancestor An earlier type; a progenitor. 0
- noun ancestor (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir. 0
- noun ancestor (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times. 0