OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8872

ancestor

/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ancestro • antepasado
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.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow…