About The Word Ancestral

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Ancestral

Ancestral Meaning & Definition
Ancestral Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ancestral?

[adj] inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ancestral: hereditary | heritable | inheritable | patrimonial | transmissible

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ancestral: aboriginal | ancestorial | antepatriarchal | atavistic | autochthonous | fatherlike | fatherly | grandfatherly | grandmotherly | grandparental | humanoid | maternal | mother | motherlike | motherly | parent | parental | paternal | patriarchal | preadamite | preglacial | prehistoric | prehuman | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | primoprimitive | primordial | pristine | protohistoric | protohuman

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Ancestral In Webster's Dictionary

\An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. ``Ancestral trees.'' --Hemans.

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