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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ancestor \An"ces*tor\, n. [OE. ancestre, auncestre also
ancessour the first forms fr OF ancestre, F. anc[^e]tre,
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 go See {Cede}, and cf
{Antecessor}.]
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.
2. (Biol.) An earlier type a progenitor; as this fossil
animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
3. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the
correlative of heir.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ancestor
n : someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
that a grandparent) [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {antecedent}]
[ant: {descendant}]
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