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