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| Main Entry: |
progenitor
 [proh-jen-i-ter] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forebear |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, begetter, parent, precursor, predecessor, primogenitor |
| Main Entry: | ancestor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor in family |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, antecessor, ascendant, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, founder, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor |
| Antonyms: | descendant |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- We thought maybe these bone progenitor cells are driving down a decision path.
- Any critique that doesn't reference the progenitor misses the obvious.
- Periodic disruption and change is the progenitor of diversity, stability and abundance.
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male person who begets children |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source |
| Antonyms: | mother |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, author, begetter, forerunner, founder, materfamilias, matriarch, originator, parent, paterfamilias, patriarch, precursor, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor, relative, sire |
| Main Entry: | forefather |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestor |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, ascendant, forebearer, patriarch, precursor, predecessor, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor |
| Main Entry: | forerunner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | messenger, herald |
| Synonyms: | advertiser, advocate, ancestor, announcer, author, envoy, forebearer, foregoer, harbinger, initiator, originator, pioneer, precursor, progenitor, prognostic, prototype |
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