Thesaurus:ancestor
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: one from whom a person is descended[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- ancestor
- antecedent
- ascendant
- ascendent
- forebear
- forefather
- forerunner
- fore-elder (UK dialect)
- progenitor
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Further reading[edit]
- “166. paternity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “ancestor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.