English words for 'An ancestor.'
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noun
- An ancestor.
- (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
- (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
- (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- anything that precedes something similar in time
adj
noun
- A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
- (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- anything that precedes something similar in time
prefix
- Ancestor, ancestral
- Anterior: the frontal part of a body.
- First in order or sequence.
- Outer: the leading, outward portion of a wave or effort; or a distal part of a body.
- Outward in spatial direction.
- Greater in rank, superior
- (nautical) The fore of a ship.
- Previous or earlier in order or sequence.
- Nearest: the part of the root which is nearest/closest.
- Positioned at or near the front.
- The early stage of the root time period
- Alternative form of for-: outside, out.
- Forward in temporal direction, anticipating.
- Directly or immediately preceding in time.
- Before: the root is happening earlier in time.
- Prominent, most important, foremost or greatest in rank
- Forward in spatial direction.
- Used to indicate error, exclusion, or inadequacy; Alternative form of for-.
- Forepart: the front part of an object or area.
- Near, close to, adjacent in position.
noun
- Ancestors; ancestry.
- (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
- More than half (50%) of some group.
- In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.
- (elections) more than half of the votes
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
noun
- (genealogy) An ancestor.
- Chiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.
- (astrology, also figurative) The degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.
- (figurative) Synonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant control; superiority, supremacy”).
- position or state of being dominant or in control
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
adj
- (astrology) In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
- (botany, physiology) Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”).
- (astronomy) Rising towards the zenith.
- (figurative) Controlling, dominant, surpassing.
- Moving upward; ascending, rising.
- most powerful or important or influential
- tending or directed upward
noun
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An elderly relative.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- an ancestor in the direct line
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
noun
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
adj
noun
- A descendant of any of these peoples.
- A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
- (sometimes derogatory) A Jew.
- A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
- A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, or Aksumites.
- a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
adj
adj
noun
- A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
- The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
- A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
- (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
- The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- line of descent of a purebred animal
- ancestry of a purebred animal
verb
noun
- Lineage.
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
verb
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
adj
noun
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- a passage selected from a larger work
verb
- (transitive) To select parts of a whole
- (transitive) To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
- (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
- (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- extract by the process of distillation
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- calculate the root of a number
adj
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- additional but secondary; auxiliary;
- serving to support or corroborate
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- situated or running side by side
- (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
noun
- a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
- (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
adj
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- not as a direct effect or consequence
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- Figuratively
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct:
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
adj
noun
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- people in general (often used in the plural)
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
- (collective plural) People, persons.
- (music) Ellipsis of folk music.
- (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
adj
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
- Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
- Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
noun
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A right to take possession.
- An act of following in sequence.
- (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- the action of following in order
- a following of one thing after another in time
- acquisition of property by descent or by will
- a group of people or things arranged or following in order
adj
prep
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- (US, informal, considered incorrect by some) Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- (following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- (following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- (following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.
- (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- (directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly in the negative) For (a given length of time).
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- (following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- (informal) Often used without the hour
- (following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- (following a noun) Indicates a given part.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- (after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- (chiefly US) Before (the hour); to (the hour).
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
- (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- (following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive).
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
verb
noun
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an elevated geological formation
- either the left or right half of a body
- one of two or more contesting groups
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- an extended outer surface of an object
- One set of competitors in a game.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (LGBTQ, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- (US, Canada, Philippines, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
adj
verb
- take sides for or against
- To lean on one side.
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
adv
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- some situation or event that is thought about
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the becoming visible
- supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- one of a series published periodically
- an opening that permits escape or release
- an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the act of issuing printed materials
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
- (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
- (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
verb
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- come out of
- make out and issue
- bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
- (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- (transitive) To deliver for use.
- (transitive) To deliver by authority.
- (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
- (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.
- (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
- (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- any immature animal
- something that comes into existence as a result
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
noun
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
- An ancestor.
- (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
- (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
- (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- anything that precedes something similar in time
adj
noun
- A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
- (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- anything that precedes something similar in time
noun
- Ancestors; ancestry.
- (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
- More than half (50%) of some group.
- In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.
- (elections) more than half of the votes
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
noun
- (genealogy) An ancestor.
- Chiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.
- (astrology, also figurative) The degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.
- (figurative) Synonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant control; superiority, supremacy”).
- position or state of being dominant or in control
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
adj
- (astrology) In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
- (botany, physiology) Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”).
- (astronomy) Rising towards the zenith.
- (figurative) Controlling, dominant, surpassing.
- Moving upward; ascending, rising.
- most powerful or important or influential
- tending or directed upward
noun
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An elderly relative.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- an ancestor in the direct line
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
noun
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
adj
noun
- A descendant of any of these peoples.
- A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
- (sometimes derogatory) A Jew.
- A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
- A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, or Aksumites.
- a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
adj
noun
- Lineage.
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
verb
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
noun
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- a passage selected from a larger work
verb
- (transitive) To select parts of a whole
- (transitive) To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
- (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
- (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- extract by the process of distillation
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- calculate the root of a number
noun
verb
adj
noun
- A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
- The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
- A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
- (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
- The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- line of descent of a purebred animal
- ancestry of a purebred animal
verb
noun
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
adj
noun
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- people in general (often used in the plural)
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
- (collective plural) People, persons.
- (music) Ellipsis of folk music.
- (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
adj
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
- Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
- Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
noun
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A right to take possession.
- An act of following in sequence.
- (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- the action of following in order
- a following of one thing after another in time
- acquisition of property by descent or by will
- a group of people or things arranged or following in order
noun
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an elevated geological formation
- either the left or right half of a body
- one of two or more contesting groups
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- an extended outer surface of an object
- One set of competitors in a game.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (LGBTQ, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- (US, Canada, Philippines, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
adj
verb
- take sides for or against
- To lean on one side.
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
adv
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- some situation or event that is thought about
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the becoming visible
- supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- one of a series published periodically
- an opening that permits escape or release
- an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the act of issuing printed materials
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
- (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
- (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
verb
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- come out of
- make out and issue
- bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
- (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- (transitive) To deliver for use.
- (transitive) To deliver by authority.
- (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
- (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.
- (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
- (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- any immature animal
- something that comes into existence as a result
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
noun
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
adj
noun
- A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
- The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
- A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
- (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
- The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- line of descent of a purebred animal
- ancestry of a purebred animal
verb
adj
noun
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
adj
adj
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- additional but secondary; auxiliary;
- serving to support or corroborate
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- situated or running side by side
- (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
noun
- a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
- (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
adj
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- not as a direct effect or consequence
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- Figuratively
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct: