Ancestors

What do we mean by ancestors?

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.

An earlier type; a progenitor

One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

One who had the same role or function in former times.

A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.

Words that are spelled similarly to ancestors:
ancestors, ancestor, ancestry, investors, acceptors, attestors, arrestors, dancestor, inceptors, nestors.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ancestors:
ancestor, ancestral, spirits, descendants, immigrated, generations, lineage, paternal, deities, ancestry, ago, descended, grandfather, emigrated, rituals, gods, relatives, descendant, settled, traced, clan, peoples, maternal, tribe, mammals, ritual, dynasty, evolved, bce, originated, inhabited, lived, humans, descent, surname, migration, centuries, genetic, worship, sacred, modern, settlers, kings, indigenous, slaves, arrived.

Words that rhyme with ancestors:
esters, investors, protesters, festers, testers, semesters, protestors, polyesters, pesters, jesters, nesters, sequesters, molesters, chesters, amvestors, caressed hers, possessed hers, pressed hers.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ancestors:
own, remote, common, dead, immediate, early, direct, human, distant, deceased, maternal, earliest, ancient, primitive, paternal, illustrious, royal, female, wild, puritan, spiritual, male, african, english, noble, european, prehistoric, imperial, pious, indian, original, mythical, british, savage, irish, hominid, divine, like, worthy, german, founding, immigrant, tribal, lineal, distinguished, heroic, famous, primate, earlier, totemic, pagan, literary, colonial, reptilian, glorious, intellectual, century, spanish, medieval, aryan, prehuman, scottish, evolutionary, barbarous, dutch, remotest, contemporary, teutonic, brave, remoter, revolutionary, revered, gothic, animal, venerable, celtic, rude.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ancestors:
thousands.

Consonant match to ancestors:
incest is, insist his, insist is.

Words that sound like ancestors:
ancestors, ancestor, ancestry, ancestries, ancestress, insessores, ancestral, insister, assisters, investors, inciters, canisters, banisters, cannisters, bannisters, anastas, anise tree, insists, two sisters, incest, insiders, incisors, assessors, incense tree, amateurs, transistors, anestrous, anastos, ansatz, answers, insist, manchester, ministers, nesters, asters, resistors, insulators, anseres, anteaters, assister, ancaster, answerers, consistory, resisters, honesties, ansett, anixter, assistor, lanchester, ammeters, encyst, twin sisters, ancestrally.