Definition of ancestral
: of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor
- ancestral estates
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Makonde mask carvers from Mozambique and Tanzania depict ancestral spirits and turbaned traders with equal skill and relish.
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What Tati saw in the city was a path to a recovery that required self-love and self-care, in the form of exploring her ancestral spirituality and continuing to write poetry, raps, and essays.
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This year, as the date approached, thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip marched toward the frontier with Israel in a symbolic effort to recover their ancestral homes.
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This beautiful film paints a fresh portrait of my grandparents’ ancestral home.
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Pumas once roamed nearly the entirety of the Americas, with an ancestral range that extended from the Canadian north to the southern tip of South America.
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As with any young adult drama, the Pownalls are a family with secrets, and Ben is far more interested in saving the oceans and sipping beers with his fishing buddies than getting trapped in that kind of ancestral drama.
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This is first and foremost, according to Watt, a matter of reconciling oneself with his or her own ancestral history and personal demons.
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Violence has soared along the Gaza frontier in recent weeks, during which 116 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at mass demonstrations calling for Palestinians' right to return to ancestral lands now in Israel.
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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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