ANCE | • -ance suff. Added to an adjective or verb to form a noun indicating a state or condition, such as result or capacity… • -ance suff. Added to a verb to form a noun indicating a process or action. • ANCE adv. (dialect) once, also YINCE. |
ANCESTOR | • ancestor n. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father’s or mother’s side, at any distance of time;… • ancestor n. An earlier type; a progenitor. • ancestor n. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir. |
ANCESTORED | • ancestored v. Simple past tense and past participle of ancestor. • ANCESTOR v. to be an ancestor to. |
ANCESTORIAL | • ancestorial adj. Ancestral. • ANCESTORIAL adj. relating to ancestors. |
ANCESTORING | • ancestoring v. Present participle of ancestor. • ANCESTOR v. to be an ancestor to. |
ANCESTORS | • ancestors n. Plural of ancestor. • ancestors v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ancestor. • ANCESTOR v. to be an ancestor to. |
ANCESTRAL | • ancestral adj. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors. • ANCESTRAL adj. relating to ancestors. • ANCESTRAL n. a type of relation in logic. |
ANCESTRALLY | • ancestrally adv. Pertaining to ancestry. • ANCESTRAL adv. relating to ancestors. |
ANCESTRALS | • ANCESTRAL n. a type of relation in logic. |
ANCESTRESS | • ancestress n. A female ancestor. • ANCESTRESS n. a female ancestor. |
ANCESTRESSES | • ancestresses n. Plural of ancestress. • ANCESTRESS n. a female ancestor. |
ANCESTRIES | • ancestries n. Plural of ancestry. • ANCESTRY n. a line of ancestors. |
ANCESTRY | • ancestry n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. • ancestry n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. • ANCESTRY n. a line of ancestors. |