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ancestor    音标拼音: ['æns,ɛstɚ]
n. 祖宗,祖先;动物品种的原型;被继承人

祖宗,祖先;动物品种的原型;被继承人

ancestor
源始; 上代

ancestor
源始 上代

ancestor
n 1: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more
remote than a grandparent) [synonym: {ancestor}, {ascendant},
{ascendent}, {antecedent}, {root}] [ant: {descendant},
{descendent}]

Ancestor \An"ces*tor\, n. [OE. ancestre, auncestre, also
ancessour; the first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. anc[^e]tre,
fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form
fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L. acc. antecessorem, fr. antecedere to
go before; ante before cedere to go. See {Cede}, and cf.
{Antecessor}.]
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.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Biol.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil
animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the
correlative of heir.
[1913 Webster]

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "ancestor":
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

ANCESTOR, descents. One who has preceded another in a direct line of
descent; an ascendant. In the common law, the word is understood as well of
the immediate parents, as, of these that are higher; as may appear by the
statute 25 Ed. III. De natis ultra mare, and so in the statute of 6 R. III.
cap. 6, and by many others. But the civilians relations in the ascending
line, up to the great grandfather's parents, and those above them, they
term, majores, which common lawyers aptly expound antecessors or ancestors,
for in the descendants of like degree they are called posteriores. Cary's
Litt.45. The term ancestor is applied to natural persons. The words
predecessors and successors, are used in respect to the persons composing a
body corporate. See 2 Bl. Com. 209; Bac. Abr. h.t.; Ayl. Pand. 58.


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  • Ancestor - Wikipedia
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