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ancestor English

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ancestor

An ancestor is a person from whom one is descended refShorter Oxford English Dictionary, p63; The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, 9th ed, ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, p.&;nbsp;29). Usually it refers to a remote person, rather than the immediate parents or grandparents (Concise Oxford Dictionary, p45, gives "esp. remote")/ref. A very similar word is forebear. We get our customs from our ancestors. Entire species of plants or animals may have ancestor species from which they evolution. It is thought that an extinct group of apes was the ancestor of the human race.

ancestor

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Don't be ridiculous! We are not descended from apes, we only have a common ancestor.
All humans on Earth are descended from a common ancestor.
We did not evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor.
During O-bon, Japanese people believe they receive a visit from an ancestor.
A group of languages related via a common ancestor, or proto-language, is referred to as a language family.
A proto-language is the common ancestor of a group of languages or dialects.

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Then call your ninth-generation ancestor grandmother.
That's Your Majesty's ancestor, Queen Elizabeth the Terrible.
Ancestor of yours.
Yes. - Ancestor of mine.
It was a life of an ancestor of yours.
By the way, ladies. this is how your ancestor carried his bride across the threshold.
According to this Register of Deaths Saheiji, the servant there, was your ancestor.
I feel I have already suffered enough from my infamous ancestor. and so.
I don't know whether I'm in communication with some dead ancestor. or my motor's about to drop out and leave me stranded on the Dixie Highway.
We'll blast the rockets from our ancestor's tombs!
Do you like my ancestor?
I am ashamed to admit that even in this house known for martial valor since our ancestor Naomasa's day, the resolve you've shown is seen but rarely.
And one night the people of the village. marched on the palace. dragged your ancestor into the yard, and burned him.
Your husband is reacting to the legend of his ancestor.
He's our ancestor.
Our ancestor Hugue Aldebert, first of his kin.
An ancestor who, in an heroic charge, won the battle of Malplaquet.
Our distinguished ancestor, of his own free will. sold all the family silver.
Oh, by the way, ladies this is how your ancestor carried his bride across the threshold.
Giulio, I'm your ancestor.
Haddocks have been hanging mutineers from the main-mast since the time of my ancestor the Knight of Haddock!
Have you touched it - I touched your ancestor's souls!
Well, now let me introduce you to my ancestor.
The portrait of your ancestor looked to me like a living image.
The Devil take him To Hell where he can fester With Menelaus, his ancestor.
To my ancestor, Sir Bertram- gallant soldier, great lover and the soul of chivalry.
Some say it's because this remote ancestor of yours who built it was Cuba's greatest slave trader.
For almost two centuries the Pyncheons have lived in fear of my ancestor's curse.
Years ago, it belonged to an ancestor of mine, also an American.
I mean, that's my ancestor.
This is these people's ancestor, the original Thal male.
And Hector Pietrasanta was an ancestor of ours?
My uncle was an expert in occult sciences and he told us about Eloim, the sorcerous creator of the Panther sect who was killed by Hector Pietrasanta, an ancestor of ours, using the sword of the druids.

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A second kind of comparison focused on so-called paralogous proteins, which are descended from a common ancestor within the same creature as a result of gene duplications.
This underscores the descent of all life from a single common ancestor.
Given this supposition, a single name (Homo sapiens) is used for both modern humans and the preferred ancestor, Cro-Magnon.
One leading idea was that modern humans' primitive ancestor Homo erectus left Africa nearly two million years ago, and dispersed into other areas of the world.

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