English-Spanish translations for ancestor

• ancestro
  Cada pueblo hereda de sus ancestros una civilización que debe conservar. Every nation inherits from its ancestors a civilisation that it must preserve.
  Señor Presidente, uno de mis ancestros fue capitán de un barco que navegaba entre Escocia y Valparaíso, Chile. Mr President, one of my ancestors was the captain of a ship sailing between Scotland and Valparaiso, Chile.
  Por último, ¿alguien necesita que se le recuerde el trágico destino de los serbokosovares, perseguidos en la tierra de sus ancestros, hoy colonizada? Lastly, does anyone need reminding of the tragic fate of the Kosovo Serbs, persecuted on the now colonised land of their ancestors?
• antepasado
  Quieren una "sepultura moral" para sus antepasados. They want a 'moral resting-place' for their ancestors.
  Quisiera recordar que nuestros antepasados se desplazaban fácilmente. I should like to point out that our ancestors used readily to move around.
  Todos somos inmigrantes, si no en primera persona sí en la figura de algún familiar o antepasado. We are all immigrants, if not ourselves personally, then through one of our relations or ancestors.

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