Definitions for Ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

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1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissibleadjective

   inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

   "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

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1. ancestraladjective

   Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

2. Etymology: ancestral, from ancestre.

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1. ancestral

   An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2n ancestors in the nth generation before her/him and a total of 2g+1 − 2 ancestors in the g generations before him/her. In practice, however, it is clear that most ancestors of humans (and any other species) are multiply related (see pedigree collapse). Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 1012 or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans who have ever lived. Some cultures confer reverence to ancestors, both living and dead; in contrast, some more youth-oriented cultural contexts display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration.

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1. ancestral

   Ancestral refers to anything related to, originating from, or belonging to an ancestor or ancestors. It can also encompass characteristics, attributes, or possessions inherited from previous generations. This term can be closely linked to history, heritage, lineage, and family. It can be applied to a broad range of contexts such as people, property, traits, cultures, traditions, and beliefs.

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1. Ancestraladjective

   of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate

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1. Ancestral

   primitive; inherited from an earlier form or ancestor.

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Anagrams for Ancestral »

1. Lancaster

How to pronounce Ancestral?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Ancestral in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ancestral in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ancestral in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Ancestral in a Sentence

1. Anthony Burgess:

   We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

2. Adam Brumm:

   The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.

3. Colleen Hanabusa:

   This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.

4. Rosy Cole:

   “Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

5. Jasmina Wiemann:

   With our new evidence for an avian-level metabolism ancestral to all dinosaurs and pterosaurs, all hot-blooded dinosaurs likely had high body temperatures, comparable to those of modern birds.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Ancestral
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ancestral
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ancestral
6. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=Ancestral
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Ancestral