Words and phrases that have a meaning related to ancestor: (195 results)
Antonyms:
descendant, descendent
Often used in the same context:
descendant, descendents, forebears, ancestry, lineage, homo erectus, forefather, hominid, aurochs, genus homo, australopithecus africanus, homo habilis, algonquian, negroid, homo heidelbergensis, forbears, colonist, anthropoids, habilis, theropod dinosaur, neandertal, genus australopithecus, hominoid, australopithecus, origins, paranthropus, placental mammal, ichthyosaur, genealogical, australopithecines, erectus, ancient, siouan, trilobite, pictish, freedman, bloodline, theropod, pilgrim fathers, melanesians, dawn redwood, grandfather, thylacine, robustus, prehistoric, prehistory, archaeopteryx, horned dinosaur, earldom, columbian mammoth, monotreme, coprolites, algonquian language, devonian period, chordate, gregor mendel, australopithecus afarensis, eukaryote, archeopteryx, mycenaean, apis mellifera, iroquoian, genus, mesolithic, gullahs, cousins, palaeolithic, freeborn, pan troglodytes, dukedom, illyrian, iguanodon, tetrapods, bipedalism, toltecs, ascendants, gaulish, archosaur, homo sapiens sapiens, sauropod, tyrannosaur, felis silvestris, colchis, upper paleolithic, minoan civilization, phoenicians, slaveholder, neolithic age, antoninus, sally hemings, carthaginian, etruscans, ironmaster, phrygian, iron age, davidic, rameses ii, herodotus, seleucus, matrilineal, giant tortoise, ancestors, progenitor, forebear, ancestress, forefathers, predecessor, founder, grandfathers, descendants, founders, prototype, forerunners, heroes, progenitors, birthplace, fetish, chthonic, totemic, ancestral, idol, goddess, astral, bacchic, mithraic, olympian, pagan, personified, saiva, sakta, satanic, theriomorphic, totem, animistic, anthropomorphic, brahmanical
More specific:
father, forbear, foremother, primogenitor, sire
Appears in the definition of:
ancestral, ancestress, anser anser, bengal rose, blood relation, blood relative, catamountain, china rose, clade, cognate, collateral, descendant, descendent, dryopithecine, european wildcat, family, family line, felis silvestris, folk, foremother, gossypium herbaceum, graylag, greylag, greylag goose, heir apparent, homo erectus, indirect, kinfolk, kinsfolk, levant cotton, madnep, malus sylvestris, matronymic, metronymic, patronymic, phratry, pie, primogenitor, progenitor, proto-indo european, protomammal, rosa chinensis, sept, sib, therapsid, wild crab, wild parsnip
Synonyms:
Also try:antecedent, ascendant, ascendent
— Adjectives for ancestor: common, first, direct, great, remote, american, single, immediate, earliest, original, distant, more...
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