Synonyms for ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

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1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissibleadjective

   inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

   "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

   Synonyms:
   familial, genetic, contagious, transmittable, hereditary, catching, patrimonial, inherited, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   nonheritable, noninheritable

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, transmissible, patrimonial

   Antonyms:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

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1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, patrimonial

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1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   patrimonial, hereditary

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancestral":

   aboriginal, age-old, ancestor, ancient, traditional, progenitor, salafi, ancestry, salafist

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1. Colleen Hanabusa:

   When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chose to address me in Japanese( when no one else was greeted in their ancestral language), I understood ‘ this is precisely why Japanese Americans were treated as they were more than 75 years ago.

2. Diane Yaqco:

   We plea and beg the international community to intervene immediately, we have been driven out of our ancestral lands. We have been killed and crucified. The international community must act now to save lives of others kidnapped.

3. Ayanna Pressley:

   For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America.

4. Steve Brusatte:

   The ancestors of T. rex would have looked a whole lot like Timurlengia, a horse-sized hunter with a big brain and keen hearing that would put us to shame, only after these ancestral tyrannosaurs evolved their clever brains and sharp senses did they grow into the colossal sizes of T. rex. Tyrannosaurs had to get smart before they got big.

5. Adam Brumm:

   The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.