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Ancestor Pronunciation

Pronounce Ancestor as AH N K EH S T OW R.

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    Ancestor phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'ancestor'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of ancestor: /ænkɛstoʊr/
    • Modern IPA representation of ancestor: /æncɛstɒr/

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    List of meaning for ancestor

    a member of your family who lived a long time ago

    ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root(noun)

    someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

    a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent

    Bridie's Irish ancestors immigrated to the United States in the 19th century during the Great Potato Famine

    something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed

    pinball machines—the ancestors of today's video games—go back to the 19th century

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    ancestor in sentence

    1. Documents from the research society showed that my ancestor traveled many miles to settle in the United States.

    2. Martha told her children of their knickerbocker ancestor who was one of the first to arrive from Holland.

    3. While asking for my medical background, I reassured the doctor that I do not have a history of cancer in my family and I never even had an ancestor who had cancer.

    4. While researching my family tree, I noticed an ancestor of mine was born in Iceland at the turn of the century.

    5. Once I gathered the paperwork, I noticed that my ancestor on my mom’s side of the family was once a celebrity in her day.

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    The new species is yet another confirmation that Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was not the only potential human ancestor species that roamed in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia during the middle Pliocene, current fossil evidence from the Woranso-Mille study area clearly shows that there were at least two, if not three, early human species living at the same time and in close geographic proximity.

    – Yohannes Haile-Selassie

    That, in turn, suggests that the two groups of insects share a genetic program for eyespot production, the last common ancestor of these insects lived about 320 million years ago, deep in the Paleozoic. So we think this must be a developmental mechanism that goes all the way back to the origins of winged insects.

    – Conrad Labandeira

    Gualicho did not inherit this forelimb anatomy from an ancestor it shared with tyrannosaurs. Rather, it evolved independently in the two groups.

    – Peter Makovicky

    Smallpox alone killed millions of millions of people, so if a human ancestor was predisposed to attend to those bumps, to dislike them and stay away from them.

    – Tom Kupfer

    There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree.

    – Sterling Nesbitt

    We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

    – Milan Kundera

    The ancestor of every action is a thought.

    – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    But what this animal tells us [is] that actually the last common ancestor of the two groups had lots of bone, so rather than sharks being primitive, sharks are actually very highly evolved in their own way, and just as highly evolved as we are.

    – Sam Giles

    Humans have always been interested in trying to find an answer to the question, 'Where do we come from?' Well, now we know from what type of microbial ancestor we descend, essentially, Lokiarchaeota represent a missing piece of the puzzle of the evolution from simple cells - bacteria and archaea, prokaryotes - to complex cells - eukaryotes, which includes us humans.

    – Uppsala University

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