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What does ancestors?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 1/9/2022

Is it your kin from along time ago. Your ancestors are the members of your family who lived before you: your parents, your grandparents, and their parents before them. It is sometimes applied to the brothers and sisters in their families, to whom you are not directly related (aunt, uncles, great-uncles and so forth). "Ancestors" is usually used to mean those who lived MANY generations (and many years) ago.

The reverse term is "descendant" (children) : one is "descended" from those who gave birth to him (or her), and the generations that came before them.

It's basically someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).

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Frances Nicolas

Lvl 13
3y ago

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