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Ancestors Meaning

Ancestor definition: 1. A person related to you who lived a long time ago: 2. A plant, animal, or object that is.

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Ancestor

An ancestor or forebear is a parent or the parent of an ancestor. Ancestor is 'any person from whom one is descended. In law the person from whom an estate has been inherited.'Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other, or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer.Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2 ancestors in the nth generation before him and a total of about 2+1 ancestors in the g generations before him. In practice, however, it is clear that the vast majority of ancestors of humans are multiply related. Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 10¹² or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans that have ever lived.Ignoring the possibility of other inter-relationships among ancestors, an individual has a total of 2046 ancestors up to the 10th generation, 1024 of which are 10th generation ancestors. With the same assumption, any given person has over a billion 30th generation ancestors and this theoretical number increases past the estimated total population of the world in around AD 1000.


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an·ces·try

(ăn′sĕs′trē)n.pl.an·ces·tries
2. Ancestors considered as a group.
[Middle English auncestrie, alteration (influenced by auncestre, ancestor) of Old French ancesserie, from ancessour, ancestor, from Latin antecessor; see ancestor.]

ancestry

(ˈænsɛstrɪ) n, pl-tries
1. lineage or descent, esp when ancient, noble, or distinguished

an•ces•try

(ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə stri)
n., pl. -tries.
1. ancestral descent; lineage.
2. honorable or distinguished descent: famous by title and ancestry.
4. the origin of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.
5. the history or developmental process of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.
Noun1.ancestry - the descendants of one individual; 'his entire lineage has been warriors'
blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line
kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; 'his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower'
side - a family line of descent; 'he gets his brains from his father's side'
family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin
2.ancestry - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
hereditary pattern, inheritance - (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
descent, extraction, origin - properties attributable to your ancestry; 'he comes from good origins'
bloodline, pedigree - ancestry of a purebred animal

ancestry

nounorigin, house, family, line, race, stock, blood, ancestors, descent, pedigree, extraction, lineage, forebears, antecedents, parentage, forefathers, genealogy, derivation, progenitorsThey can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.

ancestry

nounOne's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation:
birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock.
původrod
forfeîur, ætterni
atalarecdat

ancestry

Ancestors[ˈænsɪstrɪ]N (= lineage) → ascendenciaf, linajem; (= noble birth) → abolengom

ancestry

[ˈænsɛstri]n
(= lineage) → ascendancef
of Japanese ancestry → d'ascendance japonaise
to trace one's ancestry → constituer son arbre généalogique

ancestry

n(= descent) → Abstammungf, → Herkunftf; (= ancestors) → Ahnenreihef, → Familief; to trace one’s ancestry → seine Abstammungzurückverfolgen; of royal ancestry → königlicherAbstammungorHerkunft

ancestry

[ˈænsɪstrɪ]n (origin) → lignaggio, ascendenza, stirpef; (forebears) → antenatimpl

ancestor

(ˈӕnsistə) , ((American) -ses-) – feminine ˈancestress – noun
a person who was a member of one's family a long time ago and from whom one is descended. voorouer سَلَف، جَد أعْلى прародител antepassado předek der/die Vorfahr(in) forfader; ane πρόγονοςantepasado; antepasada esivanem جد esi-isä ancêtre אָב קָדמוֹן पूर्वज predak ős leluhur forfaðir antenato, avo 祖先 조상 protėvis sencis; priekštecis nenek moyang voorouder stamfar/-mor, forfedre/-mødre przodek نیکه antepassado strămoş предок predok prednik predak förfader บรรพบุรุษ ata, soy, cet 祖先 предок, прабатько آباؤ اجداد tổ tiên 祖先
anˈcestral (-ˈses-) adjective
voorouerlik خاص بِالسَّلَف أو الأجْداد прародителски ancestral po předcích Ahnen-.. slægts- προγονικόςancestral esivanemailt päritud آبا و اجدادی؛ موروثی perintö- ancestral שֶׁל אָבוֹת קְדוּמִים पैतृक, बपौती predački ősi dari leluhur for-/ættfeðra- ancestrale, atavico 祖先の 조상의 protėvių senču-; priekšteču- nenek moyang voorouderlijkmors-, fars-rodowy پلرونه او نیکونه، میراثی ancestral ancestral наследственный po predkoch ki pripada prednikom, prastar predački som tillhört förfäderna, fäderneärvd ที่สืบต่อมาจากบรรพบุรุษ atalara ait 祖先的 спадковий, родовий آبائی ، موروثی thuộc tổ tiên 祖先的
ˈancestry – plural ˈancestries – noun
a line of ancestors coming down to one's parents. He is of noble ancestry. voorgeslagte سِلْسِلَة السَّلَف وَالأجْداد произходи linhagem původ, rod die Abstammung slægt καταγωγήascendencia, linaje, estirpe sünnipära اصل و نسب؛ تبار sukuperä ascendanceייחוס, מוצא वंश porijeklo származás keturunan forfeður, ætterni ascendenza, lignaggio 家系 가계 kilmė senči; priekšteči; izcelšanās nenek moyang afkomstslekt, ætt, formødre/-fedre, anerród, pochodzenie اصل او نسب ، ټبر linhagem origine происхождение pôvod izvor poreklo börd วงศ์ตระกูล ecdat, atalar 世系 предки; рід شجرہِ نسب ، حسب نسب dòng dõi 世系

ancestry

n. ascendencia; extracción étnica, raza; alcurnia.

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