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nounsomeone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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Definition that contains ancestor
- family people descended from a common ancestor
- pie a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
- folk people descended from a common ancestor
- inheritance any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
- heritage any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
- collateral descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- ancestral of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
- descendant a person considered as descended from some ancestor
- descendant proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- pedigree having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal