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Noun Concept

Categories: Ancestors, Genealogy, Kinship and descent, Articles with short description, Genetic genealogy

ancestor ascendant ascendent antecedent root

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) WordNet 3.0

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Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In genealogy and in phylogenetic studies of evolutionary biology, antecedents or antecessors are predecessors in a family line. Wikipedia

An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or the parent of an antecedent. Wikipedia

Antonym of descendant, genealogical predecessor in family line Wikipedia Disambiguation

Progenitor from which individuals or groups are descended. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Person from whom another person is descended Wikidata

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. Wiktionary

One from whom a person is descended. Wiktionary (translation)

A person from whom one is descended. Wiktionary

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progenitor

PRODUCT OR MATERIAL PRODUCED

offspring

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root

Wikipedia

ancestor, antecedent (genealogy)

Wikidata

ancestor, antecedent

Wiktionary

ancestor, antecessor, ascendent

Wikipedia Redirections

ancestors, Ancestory, ancestral, Fore-bear, fore-elder, Forebears, Foreelder, forefathers, Terminal ancestor

Wikidata Alias

ancestors, ancestress, ancestresses, forebear