Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - ancestor
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Ancestor
ancestor
noun Etymology: Middle English ancestre, from Anglo-French, from Latin antecessor predecessor, from antecedere to go before, from ante- + cedere to go Date: 13th century 1. a. one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent b. forefather 2 2. forerunner, prototype 3. a progenitor of a more recent or existing species or group
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1.
n. (fem. ancestress) 1 any (esp. remote) person from whom one is descended. 2 an early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved. 3 an early prototype or forerunner (ancestor of the computer). Etymology: ME f. OF ancestre f. L antecessor -oris f. antecedere (as ANTE-, cedere cess- go) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. предок, прародитель remote ancestors —- отдаленные предки ancestor worship —- культ предков 2. предшественник; прототип; прообраз; предтеча the ancestor of the modern bicycle —- предшественник современного велосипеда 3. образец, пример, эталон he is my spiritual ancestor —- он мой духовный наставник 4. юр. предшествующий владелец 5. физ. исходное явление 6. исходная частица ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) предок, прародитель 2) leg. предшествующий владелец to be ones own ancestor - быть всем обязанным самому себе Syn: forebear, forefather, progenitor Ant: descendant, offspring, progeny ...Англо-русский словарь
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(ancestors) 1. Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended. ...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors... He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years. ? descendant N-COUNT: usu pl, with poss 2. An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt... ? descendant N-COUNT: usu N of n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 a member of your family who lived a long time ago (My ancestors were French.) 2 the form in which a modern machine, vehicle etc first existed (Babbage's invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.) (- compare descendant) - ancestral adj (the family's ancestral home) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. ancestre, from L.L. antecessor, from L. antecess-, stem of antecedere "precede," agent noun from ante- "before" + cedere "to go." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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