ancestor

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n. 祖先, 祖宗

发音

US /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/
UK /ˈæn.sɛs.tə/

词形变化

ancestors 复数 ancestors ancestored ancestoring ancestors 三单 ancestoring 现在分词 ancestored 过去式 ancestored 过去分词

别名

ancestour auncestor auncestour

教材释义与例句

名词

始祖，祖先；被继承人

a member of your family who lived a long time ago

My ancestors were French.

我的祖先是法国人。

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    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; a forebear.

    祖先

  2. 2.

    An earlier type; a progenitor.

    This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

  3. 3.

    One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

    法律
  4. 4.

    One who had the same role or function in former times.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.

    语言学
v.
  1. 1.

    To be an ancestor of.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

root ascendant antecedent ascendent

反义词 1

descendant

上位词 2

relative relation

下位词 9

father sire forebear forefather ancestress forbear foremother primogenitor progenitor

相关短语

Ancestor Night ancestor worship 敬奉祖先, 祭祖 ancestor spirit ancestor spirits Ancestor X common ancestor apical ancestor last common ancestor last universal ancestor last universal common ancestor

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Latin ante- Proto-Italic *kezdō Latin cedo Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin antecessor Anglo-Norman auncestrebor. Middle English auncestre English ancestor From 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 antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.

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