ancestor

ancestor
01. My [ancestors] came to this country from Asia thousands of years ago.
02. The sabre-tooth tiger is an early [ancestor] of the domestic cat.
03. In my culture, we pray to our [ancestors] every day.
04. The native people have asked the museum to return to them the bones of their [ancestors] so that they may be returned to their original burial place.
05. Jean-François can trace his [ancestry] back hundreds of years to a small village in Normandy.
06. It is hard for Anne to accept the evolutionary fact of having a common [ancestor] with gorillas.
07. The Romans used wax death masks as models when they carved marble portraits of their [ancestors].
08. There is a Kenyan proverb that states that we have not [inherited] this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.
09. Elayne Boosler once joked that her [ancestors] wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson once remarked that the [ancestor] of every action is a thought.
11. There is a Chinese proverb which states that to forget one's [ancestors] is to be a stream without a source, a tree without roots.
12. The theory of evolution tells us that man and chimpanzees share a common [ancestor].
13. The [ancestor] of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat, which still exists today.
14. The now-extinct [ancestor] of the horse stood no higher than a medium-sized dog.
15. Our earliest human [ancestors] appeared in Africa 2.5 million years ago.
16. Twenty-four thousand people claim Ainu [ancestry] in Japan today.
17. The [ancestors] of the people of the Czech Republic settled in Europe over 1,500 years ago.
18. The people of Iran represent many [ancestries], including sizeable Turkish and Arab minorities.
19. Jean-Bertrand Aristide once remarked that as an [ancestral] religion, voodoo is an essential part of the national identity of Haiti.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат
Synonyms:
, ,


Look at other dictionaries:

  • ancestor — an·ces·tor n 1 a: a person from whom an individual is descended: ascendant b: a person from whom an estate descends compare heir 2: one that precedes ancestor in title …   Law dictionary

  • ancestor — ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear mean a person from whom one is descended. Ancestor, especially in genealogical and in historical use, implies lineal descent through one’s father or mother {he had three ancestors who were judges} but it …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ancestor — [an′ses΄tər; ] also [, an′səstər, an′sistər] n. [ME & OFr ancestre < L antecessor, one who goes before < pp. of antecedere < ante , before + cedere, to go] 1. any person from whom one is descended, esp. one earlier in a family line than… …   English World dictionary

  • ancestor — ancestor. См. предок. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • ancestor — (n.) c.1300, ancestre, antecessour, from O.Fr. ancestre (12c., Mod.Fr. ancêtre), from L.L. antecessor predecessor, lit. foregoer, agent noun from pp. stem of L. antecedere to precede, from ante before (see ANTE (Cf. ante)) + ce …   Etymology dictionary

  • ancestor — [n] predecessor in family antecedent, antecessor, ascendant, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, founder, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor; concept 414 Ant. descendant …   New thesaurus

  • ancestor — ► NOUN 1) a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. 2) something from which a later species or version has evolved. DERIVATIVES ancestral adjective ancestrally adverb ancestress noun. ORIGIN Latin… …   English terms dictionary

  • Ancestor — An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great grandparent, great great grandparent, great great great grandparent, great great great great grandparent, and so forth).Two individuals have a genetic… …   Wikipedia

  • ancestor — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ direct ▪ The builder of the house was a direct ancestor of the present owner. ▪ immediate ▪ ancient, distant, early, remote …   Collocations dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”