Crossword-Solution: ANCESTRAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Ancestral | a. | Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ANCESTRAL | anagram | LANCASTER |
We have 79 clues for the answer “ANCESTRAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Concerning forebears | 1 answer |
| Inherited, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Like some stately homes | 1 answer |
| Of a forebear | 1 answer |
| Of one's forebears | 1 answer |
| Of yore and lore | 1 answer |
| From the family tree | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to forebears. | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to progenitors. | 1 answer |
| patrimonial estate | 1 answer |
| avital | 1 answer |
| matrilinear | 3 answers |
| Parental | 4 answers |
| Willed? | 14 answers |
| Atavistic | 15 answers |
| transferable | 21 answers |
| ingrained | 26 answers |
| matriarchal | 30 answers |
| matrilineal | 31 answers |
| ethnocentric | 31 answers |
| divisional | 31 answers |
| territorial | 33 answers |
| Autochthonous | 34 answers |
| Affiliated | 36 answers |
| transmissible | 36 answers |
| bequeathed | 37 answers |
| Hereditary | 38 answers |
| connatural | 38 answers |
| topical | 38 answers |
| In-born | 44 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
| Genetic | 45 answers |
| Inherited | 45 answers |
| Small Town | 46 answers |
| Lo-cal | 46 answers |
| Regional | 46 answers |
| Patriarchal. | 47 answers |
| patrimonial | 47 answers |
| Transmitted | 47 answers |
| Rural | 47 answers |
| genealogical | 47 answers |
| Inbred | 48 answers |
| lineal | 48 answers |
| primal | 48 answers |
| Parochial | 49 answers |
| tribal | 49 answers |
| innate | 50 answers |
| immemorial | 50 answers |
| familial | 50 answers |
| Ward | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANCESTRAL (5)
But as we all pass through in our lives the various stages of ancestral culture, there comes a time when these rough sketches of life have their appeal to us as they had for our forefathers.
The adjective `long-haired' is well-attested to have been in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to modern `hairy' senses 1 and 2, and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use.
Fard also taught that the American Negro was Islamic in origin and that he should return to his ancestral faith.
The fellow (gentleman, as he styled himself) can hardly have been other than a spurious interloper; for, instead of seeking office from the king or the royal governor, or urging his hereditary claim to Eastern lands, he bethought himself of no better avenue to wealth than by cutting a shop-door through the side of his ancestral residence.
And further they are likely to have a bad effect on those who hear them; for everybody will begin to excuse his own vices when he is convinced that similar wickednesses are always being perpetrated by-- The kindred of the gods, the relatives of Zeus, whose ancestral altar, the attar of Zeus, is aloft in air on the peak of Ida, and who have the blood of deities yet flowing in their veins.
Quotes with ANCESTRAL (3)
In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and raw materials are ceaselessly transported, justifying the presence of the settler; and all the while the native, bent double, near dead than alive, exists interminably in an unchanging dream. The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey... Over against him torpid creatures, wasted by fever, obsessed by ancestral customs, form an al…
... There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).