Definition of ancestral
: of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor
- ancestral estates
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And in a move to both attract tourists and ramp up its exclusive offerings, Nordstrom will be the first U.S. retailer to sell European brands such as Eton and Tiger of Sweden, both from the ancestral homeland of the Nordstrom family.
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The divisional tournament was held in Hamilton, in the Bitterroot Valley, the ancestral homeland of the Salish.
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Then, 50 million to 60 million years ago, India began colliding with Asia, and along the swampy edges of the vanishing ocean between the land masses, new mammals emerged, including ancestral horses, primates, and whales.
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Picking a moniker out of thin air isn’t for everyone, which is why so many couples want to delve into their family trees to find names with ancestral significance.
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Yasmin Saez retired as a school teacher in Lorain in 2015 after 30 years and moved to her ancestral home in Puerto Rico.
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Lillian offers them the family's ancestral plantation home in Texas as a form of reparation.
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When T’Challa first sees his father in the ancestral plane, everything is all hazy and dreamlike, with the shades of blues and purples, the colors synonymous with Black Panther.
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With characters bearing Russian names and a story line that involves a cherry orchard and the possible loss of an ancestral home, Durang’s play pays clever homage to Chekhov.
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First Known Use of ancestral
15th century
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Definition of ancestral for Students
: of, relating to, or coming from an ancestor
- They visited their ancestral home.
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