English-Hungarian translations for ancestor

• előd
  E régiókban hiányzik az az integrált szemlélet, amelyre olyan égetően szükségük van, és amelyet elődeink is gyakoroltak. They lack the integrated view which they so desperately need and to which our ancestors also subscribed.
  Elődeink számtalanszor bizonyították már, hogy nemzeteink képesek összefogni, ha sorskérdésekről van szó. Our ancestors have demonstrated innumerable times that our nations are able to unite if our destiny is at stake.
• ős
  Több százezer romát mészároltak le, akiknek ősei generációk óta európai állampolgárok voltak. Hundreds of thousands of Roma, whose ancestors had been European citizens for generations, were slaughtered.
• felmenő
• ősapa

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