ALL meanings of ancestral
an·ces·tral
A a - adjective 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. 3
- adjective ancestral of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors 3
- noun ancestral 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 3
- adjective ancestral of or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors 3
- adjective ancestral pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors: an ancestral home. 1
- adjective ancestral serving as a forerunner, prototype, or inspiration. 1
- adjective ancestral relating to ancestry 1
- adjective ancestral hereditary, inherited 1
- noun ancestral Of, belonging to, inherited from, or denoting an ancestor or ancestors. 1
- adjective ancestral Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. 0