ancestral
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˈæn.ses.trəl/
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ancestral
- And so his clan were driven out of their ancestral lands for their own safety.
- ancestral spirits
- an ancestral altar
- ancestral lands
But this can go as far as recognizing things like ancestral karma.
- But this can go as far as recognizing things like ancestral karma.
- He he had to leave his his his ancestral home before it was taken over.
- Is, is monogamy part of the ancestral way of living?
- Are there broad buckets that you focus on in the ancestral health sort of paradigm?
- So meat is without argument and ancestral food.
- Because we have to remember our primitive brain, our ancestral wiring.
- And so his clan were driven out of their ancestral lands for their own safety.
- So you said, what is more worthy than clearing your ancestral trauma?
- You need to eat instead the ancestral fats that we've been eating for millions of years.
- And so the fat of a chicken doesn't look like the fat of an ancestral wild chicken.
- Instead, it's the Native corporations that own our ancestral lands.
- But he describes that, remember, these people are expelled from their ancestral homeland.
- We could tell his height, we could tell his his, his ancestral origin.
- Her uncle is inviting her back to her home, her, like family, ancestral home, which they call Gallant.
- And the Muskogee kept their ancestral lands forever.
Examples
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Such a festival often attracts outsiders whose ancestral origins can be traced to that town.
Academic text (1991) -
Locals are individuals born and raised in the area who have a long ancestral connection there.
Academic text (1991) -
We have twice as many women in our ancestral past as men.
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No need to ask him if he plans to return to his ancestral home.
Fiction book (1996) -
The ancestral home of the de Bleuchamp family.
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Her uncle is inviting her back to her home, her, like family, ancestral home, which they call Gallant.
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Told you so, Bovington Manor, ancestral home for the past 500 years.
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In 70 A.D., however, the Jews were once again exiled from their ancestral homeland.
Fiction book (2002) -
Certain Native American tribes of the Northern plains believed loons were ancestral spirits, trying to communicate with the physical world.
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Many families take pride in their ancestral traditions that have been passed down for generations.
Synonyms
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5.4
A right or title a family gives to their children by law
Older family members give things like clothes or recipes to younger ones
Passed from parents to children through genes
Property or rights passed down within a family for generations
How Ancestral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ancestral comes from the older word ancestor, which comes from parts meaning 'before' and 'to go', so an ancestor is someone who 'went before' you in your family. That's why ancestral describes things that come from your family long ago.