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Word: ancestor (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • (Biology) An earlier type; a progenitor
  • (Law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
  • 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.

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