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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestor |
| Synonyms: | forefather, forerunner, progenitor |
| Notes: | forbear (verb) means 'to cease or refrain from,' 'control oneself, abstain'; forebear (noun) means ancestor, literally 'a person existing before' |
| Main Entry: | ancestry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessors; family history |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, blood, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | precursor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that precedes another |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, original, originator, parent, pioneer, predecessor, prototype |
| Main Entry: | predecessor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone that comes before |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, former, precursor, previous, prior, prototype |
| Antonyms: | derivative, descendant, successor |
| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, birth, blood, bloodline, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, family, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, seed, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | presager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precursor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, foreshadower, harbinger, herald, original*, originator, parent, pioneer, predecessor, prototype |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | antecedent(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor(s) in family |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, ancestry, antecessor, blood, descent, extraction, forebears, forefather/mother, genealogy, line, primogenitor, progenitor, stock |
| Antonyms: | descendant |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heritage |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, background, blood, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebears, genealogy, heritance, legacy, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, position, race, rank, station, status, stock, strain |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
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