【ancestor】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

替代形式(Alternative forms)

ancestour (obsolete)
auncestor (obsolete)
auncestour (obsolete)

词源(Etymology)

Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor one who goes before; the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin accusative antecessorem, from antecedo (“to go before”); ante (“before”) + cedo (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.

发音(Pronunciation)

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.sɛs.tə/
Hyphenation: an‧ces‧tor
Audio (US)

名词(Noun)

ancestor (plural ancestors)

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
- 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
An earlier type; a progenitor
This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
(law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
(figurative) One who had the same role or function in former times.
- 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
  The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
(linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.

用法注意(Usage notes)

There is a rare feminine form ancestress

同义词(Synonyms)

(person from whom one is descended): forebear, fore-elder, forefather
(previous fulfiller of a role or duty): predecessor
(originating word): reflex, source, origin

反义词(Antonyms)

衍生词(Derived terms)

翻译(Translations)

one from whom a person is descended

an earlier type

a word of origin

动词(Verb)

ancestor (third-person singular simple present ancestors, present participle ancestoring, simple past and past participle ancestored)

To be an ancestor of.
- 1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights, page 9:
  Her own grandfather had been a Virginian, a descendant of Pocahontas, of course, Pocahontas having been created by Divine Providence for the specific purpose of ancestoring Virginians.
- 1942, William Faulkner, “The Bear”, in Go down, Moses: and other stories, page 281:
  But he could have completed it: Lucas Quintus Carothers McCaslin Beauchamp. Last surviving sone and child of Tomey's Terrel and Tennie Beauchamp. March 17, 1874 except that there was no need: not Lucius Quintus &c &c &c, but Lucas Quintus, not refusing to be called Lucius, because he simply eliminated that word from the name; not denying, declining the name itself, because he used three quarters of it; but simply taking the name and changing, altering it, making it no longer the white man's but his own , by himself composed, himself selfprogenitive and nominate, by himself ancestored, as, for all the old ledgers recorded to the contrary, old Carothers himself was
- 2006, Richard T. Hull, Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1951-1960:
  The human population of this earth is descended from a most adaptable population, that which originated living matter and then proceeded through continuous specific change to become the population that ancestored man.
- 2010, Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, →ISBN, page 171:
  How, that is, could ancestoring Elizabeth become a relational property of James's, when there was, when Elizabeth began to exist, no James to have this property?

变位词(Anagrams)

Canteros, Conatser, enactors, entosarc, sortance