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the ancestor
noun
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
Exact(59)
The ancestor may not have enrolled himself.
The ancestor that the Gov. & the Pres.
The ancestor had briefly taken possession of the descendant.
"What do you hear, my dog?" the ancestor says.
It developed from conquian, the ancestor of rummy games.
This is the grape that has long been identified as the ancestor of our own zinfandel.
Of course, the "Odyssey" is the ancestor of all Western road novels.
He is the ancestor of many a modern televangelist and snake-oil scripturalist.
They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
"They called me 'The Ancestor of the New Wave,' " she recalled with some amusement.
And one of the samples was the ancestor of the other seven.
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