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   ancestral

   /anˈsɛstr(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. of, belonging to, or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors: "the family's ancestral home"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French ancestrel, from ancestre (see ancestor).

   Derivatives

   • 1. ancestrally adverb

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   What does ancestral mean?

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   How do you use ancestral in a sentence?

   • 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. ...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany. ...the ancestral portraits in the hallway. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1.

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   What is an ancestral home?

   • an ancestral home. serving as a forerunner, prototype, or inspiration. logic a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y

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   What does ancestors mean?

   • 1. pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors. 2. serving as a forerunner or inspiration. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. 1. 2.

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     ANCESTRAL meaning: 1. relating to members of your family...

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   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.

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