ancestral
Origin of ancestral
1Other words from ancestral
- an·ces·tral·ly, adverb
- non·an·ces·tral, adjective
- non·an·ces·tral·ly, adverb
- pseu·do·an·ces·tral, adjective
- pseu·do·an·ces·tral·ly, adverb
Words Nearby ancestral
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How to use ancestral in a sentence
Our family land signified an ancestral connection to the greater sacred cacao story, which I suddenly found myself belonging to, creating a new grounding in my career.
Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry | Jinji Fraser | October 22, 2020 | EaterColonialism is strong, but I believe our ancestral ways are stronger.
Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry | Jinji Fraser | October 22, 2020 | EaterI am writing this column from my now socially distant home on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Miami, Sioux, and Haudenosauneega people.
Patriarch Georges-Henri Meylan, who was CEO of Audemars Piguet for 21 years, entrusted the running of Moser to his then 35-year-old son Edouard Meylan, an engineer and Wharton MBA who was lured back to his ancestral industry.
A Q&A with the provocative mind behind watchmaker H. Moser | Daniel Bentley | September 21, 2020 | FortuneSince then, Blakeslee’s excavations along the Walnut River have filled in gaps between ancestral Wichita sites.
Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture | Bruce Bower | September 10, 2020 | Science News
They will also oppose any attempts to hunt grizzlies in their recognized ancestral homelands.
The Oklahoma Kiowa have joined this warpath; the Yellowstone is their ancestral homeland.
That is to say, the ancestral genes, the ancestral strain of inheritance, appears again in these little children.
There is an ancestral homestead, but it has a meth lab in the barn.
The Nevilles' music, inspired by the ancestral rhythms of their city, is mostly pop, funk, and soul.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou | John Ed Bradley | April 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNeedless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsSome time after Bruce went north, he proceeded to Douglasdale again78 and placed an ambush near his ancestral castle.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonTherefore is there, in me, at least, an insistent whisper for ancestral and long denied rights.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe one possessed the prestige of wealth, and rank, and ancestral power; the other, the energy of a vigorous and cultivated mind.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThus, as for religion, in order to satisfy the requirements of the definition, I must restrict myself to my ancestral religion.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma Gandhi
British Dictionary definitions for ancestral
/ (ænˈsɛstrəl) /
of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors: his ancestral home
logic a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y
Derived forms of ancestral
- ancestrally, adverb
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