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Word: progenitor (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An individual from whom one or more people (dyansty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
  • A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors
  • A founder
  • biology An ancestral form of a species
  • figurative A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
  • figurative Someone who originates something.

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