ancestor

[ˈænsestər]

Definition:
1. A person in your family who lived a long time ago.
2. A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
3. An early form of a machine which later became more developed.

Use 'ancestor' in a sentence:

1. My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
2. From this union was born Aeneas, the mythical ancestor of the Roman people.
3. Olympic torch did not originate from the memorial of Prometheus, but from the man's worship of ancestor.
4. Is it because of my own sins, or my ancestor's sins?
5. It is the ancestor of karate and jujitsu.
6. Relationship between people who have a common ancestor.
7. Its ancestor organizations policies do not apply.
8. Every new element now has a mapping to all its ancestor elements.
9. Both species of elephant have a common ancestor.
10. This is because B is not in the classpath of the system class loader or its parent or ancestor class loaders.
11. He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.