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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'ancestor' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions ancestor noun (female ancestress) 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. (Biology) An earlier type; a progenitor This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir. Translations:  German: Ahne , Ahnin Etymology: Old English ancestre, auncestre, also ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre, French ancítre, from the Latin nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin acc. antecessorem, from antecedere to go before; ante before + cedere to go. See Cede, and compare with Antecessor.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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