ancestors (noun)
91resemblance — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ close, great, marked, remarkable, striking, strong ▪ eerie (esp. AmE), uncanny ▪ She …
92Yemenite — noun another term for Yemeni. ↘a Jew who was, or whose ancestors were, formerly resident in Yemen. adjective relating to Yemeni Arabs or Jews …
93ancestry — noun (plural ancestries) a person s ancestors or ethnic descent: her Irish ancestry …
94bloodline — noun a pedigree or set of ancestors …
95ancestor — noun (C) 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… …
96ancestry — noun (countable usually singular, uncountable) the members of your family who lived a long time ago: of French/Scottish etc ancestry (=having ancestors who were French, Scottish etc) …
97antecedent — noun (C) 1 formal an event, organization, or thing that is similar to the one you have mentioned but existed earlier: historical antecedents 2 antecedents (plural) formal the people in your family who lived a long time ago ancestors 3 technical a …
98kinship — noun 1 (uncountable + with) literary a family relationship: the ties of kinship 2 (singular, uncountable) a strong connection between people (+ with/between): Poe shows his kinship with his literary ancestors …
99ancestor — noun 1) he could trace his ancestors back to colonial Boston Syn: forebear, forefather, predecessor, antecedent, progenitor, primogenitor Ant: descendant, successor 2) the instrument is an ancestor of the lute Syn …
100ancestry — noun our Polish ancestry Syn: ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents; family tree; lineage, parentage, genealogy, descent, roots, stock, line …
