Definition of ancestor in English:

ancestor

nounˈansɛstəˈænˌsɛstər

1A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
祖先
he could trace his ancestors back to James the First
他可以把先祖追溯到詹姆斯一世。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her lack of respect and love for her ancestors, many of whom share a lived memory of Hitler, is appalling.
- Visiting the remote village where her ancestors lived, Syal retrieves a stone from the ruined family home - now a cowshed.
- Respect for ancestors, grandparents, and elders remains a key element in creating and demonstrating the right attitude.
- Like other farmers in the region, Eysteinn viewed his own position in the region within the context of his ancestors and future descendants.
- She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great.
- They have a daughter Valerie, as well as two sons, one of whom is the ancestor of the evil Elliot Stokes of 1970.
- The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior.
- Did the fact that Welsh kinship in general recognized the claims of a wider family, descending from a more remote ancestor, lead to more bitter disputes here?
- The family unit has at its head the ancestors followed by the grandparents, the father, the wives and then the children.
- Every now and then oversees visitors will drop in and it always winds up they sometimes are tracing ancestors or relatives.
- Why was he dating someone whom his ancestors told him would only be his downfall?
- Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met.
- Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
- The white race is anyone directly descended from our European ancestors.
- A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line.
- In other words, we come into the world bearing with us an archetypal endowment which enables us to adapt to reality in the same way as our remote ancestors.
- It was transmitted to me that I was seeing my ancestors, whom I had often thought about.
- All our remote ancestors were prehistoric and studying them is one way of understanding our own origins and evolution.
- There are stories my mother has told me of the degradations that my grandparents and their ancestors had to go through.
- In principle, all the descendants of a seventh-generation ancestor are members of one extended family.
Synonyms
forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent
rare primogenitor
1. 1.1 An early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved.
  （动植物的）原种
  the ancestor of most dolphins is not clear
  both species of elephant have a common ancestor
  Example sentencesExamples
  They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi.
  This may suggest a small population size in a common ancestor of animals.
  But understanding of how these beetles live, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, makes them less mysterious.
  For example, from the fact that the human egg is a simple cell, we may at once infer that there has been at a very remote time a unicellular ancestor of the human race resembling an Amoeba.
  In order to locate the remote ancestors of turtles, other, more subtle, features must be found.
  Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
  It is also possible to compare the descendants of a single ancestor to look at patterns of origin and extinction in these groups, or to look at relative size and diversity of the groups.
  Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says.
  Fourteen different finches evolved from a common ancestor, each adapted to suit the conditions of their various islands.
  In fact, Pandas admits that the fruit flies of Hawaii - a diverse group of more than 300 species - have all evolved from a common ancestor.
  This indicates that the japonica and indica strains are descended from different ancestors.
  There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous.
  Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi.
  Fossil records show that millions of years ago, cows and pigs shared a common ancestor, an animal that looked more pig than cow.
  It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism.
  The historic Mission grape, whose ancestors were planted by the early Spanish settlers, has all but disappeared.
  Species are often assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor by a complete process of branching, followed by complete genetic isolation.
  It appears they evolved from a common ancestor in Australia, but the time of their divergence is still unclear.
  A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet.
  Closely related animals tend to have similar eyes, because they descend from recent ancestors.
  Synonyms
  forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent
2. 1.2 An early version of a machine, system, etc.
  this instrument is an ancestor of the lute
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is played on the oud (an ancestor of the lute) and the rebaba (a one-stringed instrument).
  It was placed there out of the conviction that it was the ancestor, however remote, of the American constitution and the bill of rights.
  An ancient stringed instrument, it is an ancestor of the European lute.
  They evolved from a common ancestor but for both nations to play each other at all a hybrid set of rules has had to be devised.
  The oud is a popular instrument; it is an ancient stringed instrument that is the ancestor of the European lute.
  This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics.
  Synonyms
  forerunner, precursor, predecessor

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante 'before' + cedere 'go'.

cede from early 16th century:
Cede is from French céder or Latin cedere ‘to yield, give way, go’. Cedere is a rich source of English words including abscess (mid 16th century) ‘going away’ (of the infection when it bursts); access [Middle English] ‘go to’; ancestor (Middle English) someone who went ante ‘before’; antecedent (Late Middle English) from the same base as ancestor; cease (Middle English); concede (Late Middle English) to give way completely; decease (Middle English) ‘go away’; exceed (Late Middle English) to go beyond a boundary; intercede (late 16th century) go between; predecessor (Late Middle English) one who went away before; proceed (Late Middle English) to go forward; recede (Late Middle English) ‘go back’; and succeed (Late Middle English) ‘come close after’.

Definition of ancestor in US English:

ancestor

nounˈanˌsestərˈænˌsɛstər

1A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
祖先
my ancestor Admiral Anson circumnavigated the globe 250 years ago
Example sentencesExamples
- They have a daughter Valerie, as well as two sons, one of whom is the ancestor of the evil Elliot Stokes of 1970.
- Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met.
- She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great.
- Respect for ancestors, grandparents, and elders remains a key element in creating and demonstrating the right attitude.
- In principle, all the descendants of a seventh-generation ancestor are members of one extended family.
- The family unit has at its head the ancestors followed by the grandparents, the father, the wives and then the children.
- There are stories my mother has told me of the degradations that my grandparents and their ancestors had to go through.
- A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line.
- Why was he dating someone whom his ancestors told him would only be his downfall?
- It was transmitted to me that I was seeing my ancestors, whom I had often thought about.
- Visiting the remote village where her ancestors lived, Syal retrieves a stone from the ruined family home - now a cowshed.
- The white race is anyone directly descended from our European ancestors.
- Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
- The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior.
- Every now and then oversees visitors will drop in and it always winds up they sometimes are tracing ancestors or relatives.
- Did the fact that Welsh kinship in general recognized the claims of a wider family, descending from a more remote ancestor, lead to more bitter disputes here?
- In other words, we come into the world bearing with us an archetypal endowment which enables us to adapt to reality in the same way as our remote ancestors.
- Like other farmers in the region, Eysteinn viewed his own position in the region within the context of his ancestors and future descendants.
- Her lack of respect and love for her ancestors, many of whom share a lived memory of Hitler, is appalling.
- All our remote ancestors were prehistoric and studying them is one way of understanding our own origins and evolution.
Synonyms
forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent
1. 1.1 An early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved.
  （动植物的）原种
  Example sentencesExamples
  Species are often assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor by a complete process of branching, followed by complete genetic isolation.
  Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says.
  Fossil records show that millions of years ago, cows and pigs shared a common ancestor, an animal that looked more pig than cow.
  This may suggest a small population size in a common ancestor of animals.
  It appears they evolved from a common ancestor in Australia, but the time of their divergence is still unclear.
  Closely related animals tend to have similar eyes, because they descend from recent ancestors.
  In order to locate the remote ancestors of turtles, other, more subtle, features must be found.
  It is also possible to compare the descendants of a single ancestor to look at patterns of origin and extinction in these groups, or to look at relative size and diversity of the groups.
  It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism.
  In fact, Pandas admits that the fruit flies of Hawaii - a diverse group of more than 300 species - have all evolved from a common ancestor.
  For example, from the fact that the human egg is a simple cell, we may at once infer that there has been at a very remote time a unicellular ancestor of the human race resembling an Amoeba.
  Fourteen different finches evolved from a common ancestor, each adapted to suit the conditions of their various islands.
  Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
  Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi.
  But understanding of how these beetles live, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, makes them less mysterious.
  The historic Mission grape, whose ancestors were planted by the early Spanish settlers, has all but disappeared.
  There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous.
  They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi.
  A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet.
  This indicates that the japonica and indica strains are descended from different ancestors.
  Synonyms
  forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent
2. 1.2 An early version of a machine, system, etc.
  this instrument is an ancestor of the lute
  Example sentencesExamples
  An ancient stringed instrument, it is an ancestor of the European lute.
  This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics.
  They evolved from a common ancestor but for both nations to play each other at all a hybrid set of rules has had to be devised.
  It was placed there out of the conviction that it was the ancestor, however remote, of the American constitution and the bill of rights.
  It is played on the oud (an ancestor of the lute) and the rebaba (a one-stringed instrument).
  The oud is a popular instrument; it is an ancient stringed instrument that is the ancestor of the European lute.
  Synonyms
  forerunner, precursor, predecessor

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.

词汇	ancestor
释义	Definition of ancestor in English: ancestor nounˈansɛstəˈænˌsɛstər 1A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. 祖先 he could trace his ancestors back to James the First 他可以把先祖追溯到詹姆斯一世。 Example sentencesExamples Her lack of respect and love for her ancestors, many of whom share a lived memory of Hitler, is appalling. Visiting the remote village where her ancestors lived, Syal retrieves a stone from the ruined family home - now a cowshed. Respect for ancestors, grandparents, and elders remains a key element in creating and demonstrating the right attitude. Like other farmers in the region, Eysteinn viewed his own position in the region within the context of his ancestors and future descendants. She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great. They have a daughter Valerie, as well as two sons, one of whom is the ancestor of the evil Elliot Stokes of 1970. The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior. Did the fact that Welsh kinship in general recognized the claims of a wider family, descending from a more remote ancestor, lead to more bitter disputes here? The family unit has at its head the ancestors followed by the grandparents, the father, the wives and then the children. Every now and then oversees visitors will drop in and it always winds up they sometimes are tracing ancestors or relatives. Why was he dating someone whom his ancestors told him would only be his downfall? Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met. Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants. The white race is anyone directly descended from our European ancestors. A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line. In other words, we come into the world bearing with us an archetypal endowment which enables us to adapt to reality in the same way as our remote ancestors. It was transmitted to me that I was seeing my ancestors, whom I had often thought about. All our remote ancestors were prehistoric and studying them is one way of understanding our own origins and evolution. There are stories my mother has told me of the degradations that my grandparents and their ancestors had to go through. In principle, all the descendants of a seventh-generation ancestor are members of one extended family. Synonyms forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent rare primogenitor 1.1 An early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved. （动植物的）原种 the ancestor of most dolphins is not clear both species of elephant have a common ancestor Example sentencesExamples They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi. This may suggest a small population size in a common ancestor of animals. But understanding of how these beetles live, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, makes them less mysterious. For example, from the fact that the human egg is a simple cell, we may at once infer that there has been at a very remote time a unicellular ancestor of the human race resembling an Amoeba. In order to locate the remote ancestors of turtles, other, more subtle, features must be found. Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors. It is also possible to compare the descendants of a single ancestor to look at patterns of origin and extinction in these groups, or to look at relative size and diversity of the groups. Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says. Fourteen different finches evolved from a common ancestor, each adapted to suit the conditions of their various islands. In fact, Pandas admits that the fruit flies of Hawaii - a diverse group of more than 300 species - have all evolved from a common ancestor. This indicates that the japonica and indica strains are descended from different ancestors. There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous. Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi. Fossil records show that millions of years ago, cows and pigs shared a common ancestor, an animal that looked more pig than cow. It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism. The historic Mission grape, whose ancestors were planted by the early Spanish settlers, has all but disappeared. Species are often assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor by a complete process of branching, followed by complete genetic isolation. It appears they evolved from a common ancestor in Australia, but the time of their divergence is still unclear. A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet. Closely related animals tend to have similar eyes, because they descend from recent ancestors. Synonyms forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent 1.2 An early version of a machine, system, etc. this instrument is an ancestor of the lute Example sentencesExamples It is played on the oud (an ancestor of the lute) and the rebaba (a one-stringed instrument). It was placed there out of the conviction that it was the ancestor, however remote, of the American constitution and the bill of rights. An ancient stringed instrument, it is an ancestor of the European lute. They evolved from a common ancestor but for both nations to play each other at all a hybrid set of rules has had to be devised. The oud is a popular instrument; it is an ancient stringed instrument that is the ancestor of the European lute. This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics. Synonyms forerunner, precursor, predecessor Origin Middle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante 'before' + cedere 'go'. cede from early 16th century: Cede is from French céder or Latin cedere ‘to yield, give way, go’. Cedere is a rich source of English words including abscess (mid 16th century) ‘going away’ (of the infection when it bursts); access [Middle English] ‘go to’; ancestor (Middle English) someone who went ante ‘before’; antecedent (Late Middle English) from the same base as ancestor; cease (Middle English); concede (Late Middle English) to give way completely; decease (Middle English) ‘go away’; exceed (Late Middle English) to go beyond a boundary; intercede (late 16th century) go between; predecessor (Late Middle English) one who went away before; proceed (Late Middle English) to go forward; recede (Late Middle English) ‘go back’; and succeed (Late Middle English) ‘come close after’. Definition of ancestor in US English: ancestor nounˈanˌsestərˈænˌsɛstər 1A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. 祖先 my ancestor Admiral Anson circumnavigated the globe 250 years ago Example sentencesExamples They have a daughter Valerie, as well as two sons, one of whom is the ancestor of the evil Elliot Stokes of 1970. Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met. She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great. Respect for ancestors, grandparents, and elders remains a key element in creating and demonstrating the right attitude. In principle, all the descendants of a seventh-generation ancestor are members of one extended family. The family unit has at its head the ancestors followed by the grandparents, the father, the wives and then the children. There are stories my mother has told me of the degradations that my grandparents and their ancestors had to go through. A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line. Why was he dating someone whom his ancestors told him would only be his downfall? It was transmitted to me that I was seeing my ancestors, whom I had often thought about. Visiting the remote village where her ancestors lived, Syal retrieves a stone from the ruined family home - now a cowshed. The white race is anyone directly descended from our European ancestors. Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants. The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior. Every now and then oversees visitors will drop in and it always winds up they sometimes are tracing ancestors or relatives. Did the fact that Welsh kinship in general recognized the claims of a wider family, descending from a more remote ancestor, lead to more bitter disputes here? In other words, we come into the world bearing with us an archetypal endowment which enables us to adapt to reality in the same way as our remote ancestors. Like other farmers in the region, Eysteinn viewed his own position in the region within the context of his ancestors and future descendants. Her lack of respect and love for her ancestors, many of whom share a lived memory of Hitler, is appalling. All our remote ancestors were prehistoric and studying them is one way of understanding our own origins and evolution. Synonyms forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent 1.1 An early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved. （动植物的）原种 Example sentencesExamples Species are often assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor by a complete process of branching, followed by complete genetic isolation. Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says. Fossil records show that millions of years ago, cows and pigs shared a common ancestor, an animal that looked more pig than cow. This may suggest a small population size in a common ancestor of animals. It appears they evolved from a common ancestor in Australia, but the time of their divergence is still unclear. Closely related animals tend to have similar eyes, because they descend from recent ancestors. In order to locate the remote ancestors of turtles, other, more subtle, features must be found. It is also possible to compare the descendants of a single ancestor to look at patterns of origin and extinction in these groups, or to look at relative size and diversity of the groups. It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism. In fact, Pandas admits that the fruit flies of Hawaii - a diverse group of more than 300 species - have all evolved from a common ancestor. For example, from the fact that the human egg is a simple cell, we may at once infer that there has been at a very remote time a unicellular ancestor of the human race resembling an Amoeba. Fourteen different finches evolved from a common ancestor, each adapted to suit the conditions of their various islands. Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors. Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi. But understanding of how these beetles live, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, makes them less mysterious. The historic Mission grape, whose ancestors were planted by the early Spanish settlers, has all but disappeared. There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous. They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi. A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet. This indicates that the japonica and indica strains are descended from different ancestors. Synonyms forebear, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, antecedent 1.2 An early version of a machine, system, etc. this instrument is an ancestor of the lute Example sentencesExamples An ancient stringed instrument, it is an ancestor of the European lute. This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics. They evolved from a common ancestor but for both nations to play each other at all a hybrid set of rules has had to be devised. It was placed there out of the conviction that it was the ancestor, however remote, of the American constitution and the bill of rights. It is played on the oud (an ancestor of the lute) and the rebaba (a one-stringed instrument). The oud is a popular instrument; it is an ancient stringed instrument that is the ancestor of the European lute. Synonyms forerunner, precursor, predecessor Origin Middle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.
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