📖 Определения и значения для слова ancestor
📒 a person in your family who lived a long time ago
- His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
- He can trace his ancestors back to the reign of Elizabeth I.
- He claims as his literary ancestors such giants as Henry James and William Faulkner.
📒 an animal that lived in the past that a modern animal has developed from
- a reptile that was the common ancestor of lizards and turtles
📒 an early form of a machine that later became more developed
- The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.