ancestral

/æn'sestrəl/

Thân thiện

The family visited their ancestral home during the summer.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or inherited from ancestors: Describes something that belongs to, comes from, or is connected to one's family predecessors.
   • Passed down through generations according to established rules: Describes something, such as property, traits, or traditions, that is received from ancestors through legal or customary lines of descent.

Usage

• The adjective "ancestral" is used to describe nouns, indicating their origin or connection to family lineage. It typically precedes the noun it modifies.
• It is a formal term often used in historical, legal, familial, and cultural contexts.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • They returned to their ancestral homeland to learn more about their family's history.
  • The ancestral portrait hanging in the hall depicted his great-grandfather.
  • She felt a duty to uphold the ancestral traditions of her community.

Advanced Usage

• "ancestral to": Used in scientific or evolutionary contexts to describe a species or form from which others have descended.
  • This fossil is believed to be ancestral to all modern primates.
• In legal contexts: Often used to describe property or titles inherited through family line.
  • He took over the management of the ancestral estate.

Variants and Related Words

• Ancestor (n): A person from whom one is descended.
  • My ancestors came from a small village in Italy.
• Ancestry (n): One's family or ethnic descent.
  • She is proud of her Irish ancestry.

Synonyms

• Hereditary: Passed on from one generation to the next.
• Patrimonial: Inherited from one's father or ancestors.
• Lineal: In a direct line of descent from an ancestor.

Antonyms

• Acquired: Gained through one's own efforts, not inherited.
• Nonhereditary: Not passed down through genetic or family lines.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Ancestral home: The house, village, or region from which one's family originated.
  • He dreamed of one day visiting his ancestral home in Scotland.
• Ancestral worship/veneration: The religious practice of honoring deceased ancestors.
  • Ancestral veneration is an important part of many cultural traditions.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
2. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
   • ancestral home
   • ancestral lore
   • hereditary monarchy
   • patrimonial estate
   • transmissible tradition

Từ đồng nghĩa

• hereditary
• patrimonial
• transmissible