Ancestor

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) An earlier type; a progenitor
 * 3)  One from whom an estate has descended;&mdash;the correlative of heir.

Adjectives for Ancestor
rude; far-away;  august;  pious;  dim; divine; symbolical; barbaric; martial; devout; renowned; remote; illustrious; cave-dwelling; heroic; primitive; forgotten; venerable; respected; roistering; adventurous; astute;  seafaring;  contemporary;  solitary-minded;  immortal;  tainted;  prehistoric; talented;  frugal;  lineal; immigrant; blue-blooded ; aristocratic; benighted.

Verbs for Ancestor
address; anger; bury with; descend from; hark back to; honor; idealize; idolize; inherit from; invoke; propitiate; renounce;  revere;  sleep with; swear by; trace; venerate; worship; bequeaths; blesses; counsels; fades; foreruns;  influences;  precedes; vouchsafes.

Thesaurus
ancestress; announcer; antecedent; ascendant; avant-garde; begetter; bellwether; buccinator; bushwhacker; explorer; forebear; forefather; foregoer; forerunner; front runner; frontiersman; fugleman; grandparent; groundbreaker; guide; harbinger; herald; innovator; lead runner; leader; messenger; parent; pathfinder; pioneer; point; precedent; precursor; predecessor; premise; primogenitor; procreator; progenitor; progenitress; progenitrix; prototype; scout; stormy petrel; trailblazer; trailbreaker; vanguard; vaunt-courier; voortrekker

Etymology
ancestre:, auncestre:, ancessour:; the first forms from  ancestre: (modern French ancêtre:), from the  nominative antecessor: one who goes before; the last form  from  ancessor:, from Latin accusative antecessorem:, from antecedo:; ante: + cedo:. See cede:, and compare with antecessor:.

Derived terms

 * cenancestor

Translations

 * Armenian: նախնի,
 * Bulgarian: прародител
 * Catalan: avantpassat
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 祖先 (zŭ xiān)
 * Cantonese: 祖先 (jou2 sin1)
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: tɔgbui
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Ahne , Ahnin
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ős, előd, felmenő
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: leluhur
 * Irish: ,


 * Italian: ascendente, antenato
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 조상 (josang)
 * Kurdish: با وباپیر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: strămoș
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sinnsear
 * Serbian: predak, praotac , pretka , predkinja , pramajka , praroditelj
 * Slovak: predok
 * Slovene: prednik, prednica
 * Spanish:, antepasado
 * Swedish: förfader
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: büröletan,  hibüröletan,  jibüröletan


 * Bulgarian: предшественик
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ős, előd
 * Irish: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: predok
 * Slovene:

Anagrams

 * enactors