ancestor
EN
[ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ] [ˈæn.sɛs.toɹ] Fancêtre WAncêtre (aïeul)
- NomPLancestors
- 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.
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
- An earlier type; a progenitor.
- This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
- (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
- The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
- 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.
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- He called himself a Safavi, from Safi, an ancestor illustrious for piety; and hence to contemporary Europe he was known as the Sofi.
- Our results support this scenario, but we find that ensuing warming periods also provide gateways that allowed the common ancestor of the elwesi-species group to disperse intercontinentally.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of ancestor in English Dictionary
- Partie du discours Hiérarchie
- Noms
- Noms Dénombrable
- Noms Dénombrable
- Noms
- en ancestors
- en ancestorism
- en ancestorist
- en ancestorial
- en ancestorists
Source: Wiktionnaire
Grammaticalement, ce mot "ancestor" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable.