English-Dutch translations for ancestor

• voorouder
  Ze willen dat hun voorouders een "morele begrafenis" krijgen. They want a 'moral resting-place' for their ancestors.
  Ik zou eraan willen herinneren dat onze voorouders zich maar al te graag verplaatsten. I should like to point out that our ancestors used readily to move around.
  Elk volk erft van zijn voorouders een beschaving die het moet behouden. Every nation inherits from its ancestors a civilisation that it must preserve.
• voorloper
• voorvader

Definition of ancestor

• 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
• An earlier type; a progenitor
• One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir
• One who had the same role or function in former times
• To be an ancestor of

Examples

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

Related words

• ancestors
• cenancestor
• ancestorism
• ancestor worship
• common ancestor
• apical ancestor
• first ancestor
• last common ancestor
• last universal ancestor