ancestral /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/noun 9adjective 1forms 1 noun9 •An ancestor or forbear.Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals. — 1955 •A genetic precursor.All the ancestrals with unknown origin or pedigree were included within this group. — 1993 •A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.Ancestrals were planters and irrigators, but more cosmopolitan. — 2015 •An earlier version of something. •The spirit of one's ancestor.Only three of the 23 societies with such kinship groups lack active ancestrals. Half of the 24 societies without such kinship gropus posses active ancestral spirits. — 1960 •An elderly relative.Cadwy and some of the ancestrals carried Gilbert back to the platform to have his wounds healed by Guinevere. — 2018 •One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.To future ancestrals living in old homesteads or in copies of them, Figures 2 and 3 indicate what and how to show. — 1928 •(India) A descendant of one's ancestors.He considered that the local custom permitted a sister's son to inherit in default of near male ancestrals. — 1868 •A relationship in which something is a precursor.Like all ordinary ancestrals, remote successor is logically reflexive. — 1992 adjective1 •Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.one’s ancestral home formsancestrals
