ancestor
ancestor is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- 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 fore father.
- noun. An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
- noun. One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
- noun. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Synonyms
antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ancestor:
carstone, enactors, entosarc, sortance
Common word forms
ancestors, ancestored, ancestoring
Words from these letters
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