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ancestorsnounpl. of ancestor a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descentBridie's Irish ancestors immigrated to the United States in the 19th century during the Great Potato Famine fathers, forebearers, forebears(also forbears), forefathers, grandfathers, primogenitors, progenitors antecessors, predecessors(archaic)ancestresses, foremothers, grandmothers, matriarchsgrandsires(archaic), patriarchs, sires(archaic)ancestries, antecedents, roots descendants(also descendents) children, families, issues, lineages, offspring(also offsprings), posterities, progenies, seed(or seeds), stocksdaughters, heirs, inheritors, scions, sons, successors something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developedpinball machines—the ancestors of today's video games—go back to the 19th century antecedents, archetypes, daddies, foregoers, forerunners, granddaddies(also grandaddies), precursors, predecessors, prototypes models, originalsoriginators, siresfathers, mothers descendants(also descendents) by-products, derivatives, offshoots, outgrowths, spin-offsdaughters, sons |