| Main Entry: | ancestor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor in family |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, antecessor, ascendant, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, founder, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor |
Antonyms: |
descendant |
| Main Entry: | ancestry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessors; family history |
Synonyms: |
ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, blood, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | antecedent(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor(s) in family |
Synonyms: |
ancestor, ancestry, antecessor, blood, descent, extraction, forebears, forefather/mother, genealogy, line, primogenitor, progenitor, stock |
Antonyms: |
descendant |
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
Synonyms: |
ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, author, begetter, forerunner, founder, materfamilias, matriarch, originator, parent, paterfamilias, patriarch, precursor, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor, relative, sire |
| Main Entry: | forefather |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestor |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, ascendant, forebearer, patriarch, precursor, predecessor, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor |
| Main Entry: | progenitor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forebear |
Synonyms: |
ancestor, begetter, parent, precursor, predecessor, primogenitor |
| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
Synonyms: |
ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, birth, blood, bloodline, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, family, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, seed, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
adopted, adoptive, agnate, akin, allied, ampherotokous, ancestral, aval, avunculocal, biparental, close, collateral, congenital, connate, consanguineous, familial, family, filial, full, kindred, linear, maternal, matrilineal, matrilocal, matroclinous, neolocal, nerled, novercal, orbate, parental, paternal, patriarchal, patricentric, patrilineal, patrilocal, patroclinous, philoprogenitive, spoiled, unfathered, unfilial, unilineal, uxorilocal, virilocal
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