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- Dictionaryancestral/anˈsɛstr(ə)l/
adjective
- 1. of, belonging to, or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors: "the family's ancestral home"
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relating to members of your family from the past: an ancestral home. ancestral rights. See. ancestor. Fewer examples. Her musical gifts are a kind of ancestral heritage passed to her from her grandmother. They had long planned to visit the family's ancestral homeland in the Philippines.
: of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor. ancestral estates. ancestrally. an-ˈse-strə-lē. adverb. Examples of ancestral in a Sentence.
Ancestral definition: pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors. See examples of ANCESTRAL used in a sentence.
Ancestral things have been around so long that they once belonged to your ancestors, the family members who lived before your grandparents were born. Your ancestral home is the place your great-grandparents or great-great-uncle once lived.
You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
Definition of ancestral adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
ancestral - inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
