Crossword-Solution: ANCESTOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ancestor | n. | 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. |
| Ancestor | n. | An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. |
| Ancestor | n. | One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANCESTOR | anagram | ENACTORS, SARCONET, SORTANCE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ANCESTOR (5)
The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember.
Say to him that Dator Xodar, with officers and men, escorting two prisoners, would be transported to the gardens of Issus beside the Golden Temple.” “Blessed be the shell of thy first ancestor, most noble Dator,” replied the man.
Leakey believes that Homo Habilis, who lived in East Africa about two million years ago, was the immediate ancestor of man and the most advanced of all the hominids.
Praised be your first ancestor, redman, that you thought of this chance in time! It would never have occurred to me to imagine that I might wield the same power that brought me into existence.” “You are right,” said Carthoris.
Was it, therefore, no momentary mood, but, however skilfully concealed, the settled temper of his life? And not merely so, but was it hereditary in him, and transmitted down, as a precious heirloom, from that bearded ancestor, in whose picture both the expression and, to a singular degree, the features of the modern Judge were shown as by a kind of prophecy? A deeper philosopher than Phœbe might have found something very terrible in this idea.
Quotes with ANCESTOR (3)
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. M…
Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it. Maybe, it is one of some other reasons, why men forget their prehuman ancestor.
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).