ancestral
pronunciation
How to pronounce ancestral in British English:
UK [ænˈsestrəl]
How to pronounce ancestral in American English:
US [ænˈsestrəl]
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- Adjective:
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
- of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
Word Origin
- ancestral (adj.)
- 1520s, from Old French ancestrel (Anglo-French auncestrel), from ancestre (see ancestor). Related: Ancestrally.
Example
- 1. But for a week , all of them were immersed in ecology and ancestral culture .
- 2. It also has a nationalist lobby that views " eastern turkestan " as an ancestral homeland .
- 3. Moreover , they involve modern industrialized societies , which presumably are not especially representative of humanity 's ancestral situations .
- 4. The villagers now live in sterile rows of yellow concrete houses 125 miles east of their abandoned ancestral homes .
- 5. The story ended badly , with the good doctor put to death as a traitor and caroline mathilde exiled to hanover , the british monarchy 's ancestral home .