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n. A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.

n. A forerunner or predecessor.

n. Law The person from whom an estate has been inherited.

n. Biology The actual or hypothetical organism or stock from which later kinds evolved.

n. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.

n. An earlier type; a progenitor

n. One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

n. One who had the same role or function in former times.

n. 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.

n. An earlier type; a progenitor.

n. One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

n. One from whom a person is descended in the line of either father or mother; a forefather; a progenitor.

n. In law, one, whether a progenitor or a collateral relative, who has preceded another in the course of inheritance; one from whom an inheritance is derived: the correlative of heir: sometimes used specifically of the immediate progenitor.

n. In biology, according to the theory of evolution, the hypothetical form or stock, of an earlier and presumably lower type, from which any organized being is inferred to have been directly or indirectly developed.

n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

"But the term ancestor - worship seems to me much too confined for the religion which pays reverence not only to those ancient gods believed to be the fathers of the Japanese race, but likewise to a host of deified sovereigns, heroes, princes, and illustrious men."

descendant    offspring   

relation    relative   

collateral ancestors   

ancestress    forefather    primogenitor    forbear    progenitor    sire    forebear    foremother    father   

cenancestor   

progenitor    predecessor    ancestry    forebear    stock    fore elder    forerunner    root    patriarch    forefather   

descendant    hero    ruler    ancestry    tribe    predecessor    monarch    cousin    parent    God