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单词 ancestor
释义
ancestor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæn.ses.tər/us
/ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
B2
apersonrelatedto you wholivedalongtimeago:
祖先，祖宗
There wereportraitsof his ancestors on thewallsof theroom.房间墙壁上挂着他祖先的画像。
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descendant
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
your ancestors
  • ancestorI discovered that one of my ancestors was a member of King Henry VIII's court.
  • forebearMy forebears were enslaved and brought to this country.
  • forefatherI visited the land of my forefathers.
  • ancestryDNA tests tell me that I have Central Asian ancestry.
  • extractionMy family is of Italian extraction.
  • family treeSince many families will be gathering for the holiday, it's a perfect time to create a family tree.
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aplant,animal, orobjectthat isrelatedto oneexistingat alaterpointintime:
（动植物）原种；（物体）原型
Thiswoodeninstrumentis the ancestor of themodernmetalflute.这种木质乐器是现代金属长笛的雏形。
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  • Twelve thousandyearsago,ourancestors wereprimitivesavageslivingincaves.
  • Apparently his ancestors came over from France in the 11thcentury.
  • Sheclaimsthat Mary Queen ofScotsis one of herdistantancestors.
  • Thesebonescome from ananimalthat is the ancestor of themodernhorse.
  • Archaeology cantellus a lot about howourIron-Age ancestorslived.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Family: ancestors & descendants
  • ancestral
  • ancestry
  • be in the/someone'sbloodidiom
  • blood
  • blood is thicker than wateridiom
  • bloodline
  • distaff
  • family tree
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forefather
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • heraldic
  • heraldry
  • lineage
  • lineal
  • run in the familyidiom
  • sandwich generation
  • successor
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ancestral
(Definition ofancestorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ancestor| American Dictionary

ancestor
noun[C]
us
/ˈænˌses·tər,-səs-/
anymemberofyourfamilyfromlongago, forexample, thegrandparentsofyourgrandparents:
Hereturnedto Ecuador, where his mother’s ancestorslived.

ancestral

adjective[not gradable]us
/ænˈses·trəl/
Hewantedtotourhis family's ancestralhomeland, Germany.

ancestry

noun[Cusually sing]us
/ˈænˌses·tri,-səs-/
She was ofSpanishand Iroquois ancestry.
(Definition ofancestorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofancestor

ancestor
Their possession of the bundles would have identified them as lineage heads, those most directly descended from the divine ancestors.
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The seed from which the tree is grown consists of its rightmost left and leftmost right ancestors, initially the two pseudo-nodes.
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Under protobiological conditions, peptides could have spontaneously formed and organized into simple, functional structures that were ancestors of modern protein channels and receptors.
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Aboriginal heritage and knowledge of family and ancestors relied on oral traditions that were disrupted and mostly destroyed by colonisation.
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What's more, this pressure would have been independent of our ancestors' cognitive abilities or social structures at the time.
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Initiates pored over the book's photographs of famous ancestors, getting me to translate passages, which were then discussed and criticised.
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The dual for downwards accumulations of the function subtrees is the function paths, which replaces each element of a tree with that element's ancestors.
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We must belong to a particular reproductive community, sharing certain ancestors.
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All this increases people's freedom to shape their identities in a way that their ancestors could not have possibly imagined.
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A division of the world is also found in relation to lineages and ancestors associated with a par ticular place.
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Feasts maintain relationships between the living and ancestors.
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Eventually, soon after the beginning of the civil war, he judged the time ripe for reclaiming all the former power and wealth of his ancestors.
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Both of these place names associate the caves with ancestors, and the latter specifically with divine ancestors.
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They are unlikely to have formed a kin group with a commonly recognized set of ancestors.
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Both must turn their backs on the inhuman voices which were those of their respective ancestors in order that authentic communication be possible.
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Collocationswithancestor

ancestor

These are words often used in combination withancestor.

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ancestor worship
I am not bowled over by ancestor worship.
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Hansard archive
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common ancestor
And is there onecommonancestorfor sauceboat, saucebox, saucepan, and saucy?
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deceased ancestor
Names given to a young person after going through a rite of passage would most likely be taken from a deceased ancestor of the family.
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