英语词汇“ancestral”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Ancestral things have been around so long that they once belonged to your ancestors, the family members who lived before your grandparents were born.

Your ancestral home is the place your great-grandparents or great-great-uncle once lived. You can also use this adjective to describe things that someone inherited from ancestors, like your friend's ancestral beach cottage or your mom's ancestral set of silverware. Ancestral comes from the Late Latin antecessor, "predecessor," or literally "forgoer," from the root antecedere, "to precede."

WORD FAMILY

ancestral: ancestrally+/ancestor: ancestors, ancestral

USAGE EXAMPLES

Among the 4,000 sites are fishing and hunting processing areas, ancestral village areas and tribal corridors.

Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017)

Now he is working at a construction site for half that amount near his ancestral village of Barbata, far away.

Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016)

Many Israelis consider the settlements to be in the ancestral homeland of the Jews and refer to them by their biblical names, Judea and Samaria.

Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016)

1adj of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

2adj inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

ancestral home
ancestral lore

Syn

hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible
heritable, inheritable

capable of being inherited

单词	ancestral
释义	ancestral (once / 1409 pages) adj Ancestral things have been around so long that they once belonged to your ancestors, the family members who lived before your grandparents were born. Your ancestral home is the place your great-grandparents or great-great-uncle once lived. You can also use this adjective to describe things that someone inherited from ancestors, like your friend's ancestral beach cottage or your mom's ancestral set of silverware. Ancestral comes from the Late Latin antecessor, "predecessor," or literally "forgoer," from the root antecedere, "to precede." WORD FAMILY ancestral: ancestrally+/ancestor: ancestors, ancestral USAGE EXAMPLES Among the 4,000 sites are fishing and hunting processing areas, ancestral village areas and tribal corridors. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Now he is working at a construction site for half that amount near his ancestral village of Barbata, far away. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) Many Israelis consider the settlements to be in the ancestral homeland of the Jews and refer to them by their biblical names, Judea and Samaria. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor 2adj inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent ancestral home ancestral lore Syn hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible heritable, inheritable capable of being inherited
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