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ancestor 音標拼音: ['æns ,ɛstɚ] n. 祖宗,祖先;動物品種的原型;被繼承人 祖宗,祖先;動物品種的原型;被繼承人 ancestor源始; 上代 ancestor源始 上代 ancestor n 1: someone from whom you are descended ( but usually more remote than a grandparent) [ synonym: { ancestor}, { ascendant}, { ascendent}, { antecedent}, { root}] [ ant: { descendant}, { descendent}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Biol.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " ancestor": ancestress, announcer, antecedent, ascendant, avant- garde, begetter, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, explorer, forebear, forefather, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, grandparent, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, lead runner, leader, messenger, parent, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premise, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor, progenitress, progenitrix, prototype, scout, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt- courier, voortrekkerANCESTOR, descents. One who has preceded another in a direct line ofdescent; an ascendant. In the common law, the word is understood as well ofthe immediate parents, as, of these that are higher; as may appear by thestatute 25 Ed. III. De natis ultra mare, and so in the statute of 6 R. III. cap. 6, and by many others. But the civilians relations in the ascendingline, up to the great grandfather' s parents, and those above them, theyterm, majores, which common lawyers aptly expound antecessors or ancestors, for in the descendants of like degree they are called posteriores. Cary' sLitt. 45. The term ancestor is applied to natural persons. The wordspredecessors and successors, are used in respect to the persons composing abody corporate. See 2 Bl. Com. 209; Bac. Abr. h. t.; Ayl. Pand. 58.
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