Definitions
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Word origin
From Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor (“one who goes before”); the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
Used in a sentence
“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”
“This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.”
“Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Forebear”8 letters
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