Word Meanings - ANCESTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (more info) first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancêtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L.

Additional info about word: ANCESTOR

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (more info) first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancêtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L. acc. antecessorem, fr. antecedere to go before; ante before + cedere to 1. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANCESTOR)

• Predecessor
• Ancestor
• forerunner
• elder

Related words: (words related to ANCESTOR)

• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• PREDECESSOR
  One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• ELDERN
  Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• ELDERWORT
  Danewort.
• ANCESTORIAL
  Ancestral. Grote.
• ELDERISH
  Somewhat old; elderly.
• ANCESTOR
  An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (more info) first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancêtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L.
• ELDERSHIP
  1. The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
• FORERUNNER
  A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in
• DISELDER
  To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. Fuller.
• GELDER
  One who gelds or castrates.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• SKELDER
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. B. Jonson.
• GUELDERROSE
  A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum , bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree. (more info) hence, D. Geldersche roos, G. Gelderische rose, F. rose de Gueldre,
• WIELDER
  One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.
• BRICKFIELDER
  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney,
• GELDER-ROSE
  See GUELDER-ROSE
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
• WELDER
  One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.