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adjective [ before noun ] uk / ænˈses.trəl / us / ænˈses.trəl / Add to word list. 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.
The meaning of ANCESTRAL is of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor. How to use ancestral 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.
Ancestral definition: pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors. See examples of ANCESTRAL used in a sentence.
Definition of ancestral adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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. Synonyms: inherited, hereditary, patriarchal, antecedent More Synonyms of ancestral.
You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land that they have had for a long time.
