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ancestors
/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚz/
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What does ancestors mean?
noun
- plural of ancestor
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ancestor
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚz/
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My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
The angular hollows and lines of his aged ancestors had succeeded to their reign in his face twenty years before their time.
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But strange truly are the interblendings of race, and the way in which traits of ancestors reappear, modifying and transforming each other.
Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors.
These first crude and clumsy vases have been preserved to our own day as irrefutable witnesses to the work of our ancestors.