Used in a Sentence

ancestors

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ancestors.

Editorial note

You mean they had the good fortune that their ancestors did not land in a desert.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

an American five-piece doom metal ensemble, residing in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ancestors gathered in one view.

N

an American five-piece doom metal ensemble, residing in Los Angeles, California, United States.

N

a public television mini-series on family history, (or genealogy).

N

an EP by Edith Frost, released in 1997 through Island Records and Trade 2.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ancestors.

N

an American five-piece doom metal ensemble, residing in Los Angeles, California, United States.

N

a public television mini-series on family history, (or genealogy).

N

an EP by Edith Frost, released in 1997 through Island Records and Trade 2.

N

a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, which was released in 2012 on the Finnish TUM label.

Example sentences

1

You mean they had the good fortune that their ancestors did not land in a desert.

2

This is not a comment on the racial ability of people whose ancestors were on the Indian subcontinent.

3

Those species are grouped under genus Homo and would likely have been ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals.

4

First of all, what kind of macronutrients you need and how much, may depend on yours and your ancestors habitat.

5

It's helpful to remember any time a European criticizes America- Their ancestors were too cowardly to get on the boat.

6

These children will grow up, and live in the same horrid living conditions as their ancestors.

7

Seemed to me that the suggestion there is that paler ancestors became darker in regions closer to the equator (Africa, Australia, Indonesia).

8

That wealth was built over centuries by the ancestors of the current citizens.

9

Fly in the ointment: Our ancestors didn't stop asking, quite obviously, given that we ended up here.

10

I blame our ancestors for not being open-minded and putting more value on religion / non-sense rules.

11

Actually I think our early ancestors would have lived with much less privacy than we do today.

12

I wonder if we'd be here if our ancestors cooked rice in a way that did not reduce the arsenic content.

Quote examples

1

Our ancestors also used words (like "god") to answer (i.e.

2

Clearly they're pretty hard to verify in a lot of cases, and I'm starting to wonder how many of these evolutionary "we are this way because our ancestors did X and were hunted by Y" theories are mostly fluff.

3

> "If science tells me that I’m nice to other people only because a disposition to be nice ultimately helped my ancestors spread their genes (Trivers, 1971), should I stop being nice to people?" Again, this fact only gives you an imperative if it relates to your goals.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ancestors in a sentence?

You mean they had the good fortune that their ancestors did not land in a desert.

What does ancestors mean?

an American five-piece doom metal ensemble, residing in Los Angeles, California, United States.

What part of speech is ancestors?

ancestors is commonly used as N.