[ADJ 形容词]祖先的；祖传的 You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
[usu ADJ n]
...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.
1a member of your family who lived a long time ago → descendant: My ancestors were French.► see thesaurus at
relative
2an animal that lived in the past, that modern animals have developed from: Lions and house cats evolved from a common ancestor (=the same ancestor).3the form in which a modern machine, vehicle etc first existedSYN forerunnerancestor of Babbage’s invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.—ancestral /ænˈsestrəl/ adjective: the family’s ancestral home
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