Reverse Dictionary: ANCESTOR

ADJECTIVES
► FATHERLY pert. to ancestors; ancestral; also, venerable → 1000 obs.

NOUNS
► BACK FAMILY ancestry; a line of descent; one’s parents or relatives of an earlier generation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BACK STOCK ancestry; a line of descent; one’s parents or relatives of an earlier generation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MAJORITY ancestry → 1646 obs.
► MATRILINY descent through the female line, as in ancestry, inheritance, etc. → 1986 (Bk.)
► PATRILINY descent through the male line, as in ancestry, inheritance, etc. → 1986 (Bk.)
► RADIX ancestral root or stock → 1651 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANCIENTS ancestors → 1529 Eng. dial.
► AUNCETER ► ONSETTER an ancestor → 1773 Eng. dial.
► AUNT’S SISTERS ancestors → 1900 Eng. sl.
► BACK FAMILY ancestors → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BACK STOCK ancestors → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BELDAM ► BELDAME a remote ancestress → 1679 obs.
► BELSIER ► BELSIRE an ancestor → 1377 obs.
► ELDER an ancestor, a forefather; hence, a predecessor, one who lived in former days; usually in plural → 971 obs.
► ELDFATHER an ancestor, a forefather in general → 1000 obs.
► ELDRINGS ancestors; elders, parents, ancestors → 1300 obs.
► FOREMOTHER a female ancestor → 1582 
► OLD SEED-FOLKS ancestors, old-timers → 1905 Amer. dial.
► PRIMITIVE an ancestor or progenitor; a predecessor → 1486 obs.
► PRIMOGENITOR the earliest ancestor, esp. of a people; a forefather; a person from whom another is originally descended → 1643 
► PRIMOGENITRIX a female progenitor; a female from whom another is originally descended → 1875 
► PROPOSITUS the person from whom a line of descent originates → 1986 (Bk.)
► SEED FEATHERS ancestors, old-timers → 1954 Amer. dial.
► SEED-FOLKS ancestors, old-timers → 1905 Amer. dial.
► TUPUNA an ancestor; a grandparent → 1845 NZ

VERBS
► PATRIZATE to take after, imitate, or follow the example of one’s father or ancestors → 1623 obs.