Synonyms for ancestors
an·ces·tors

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1. ancestorsnoun

   Synonyms:
   forefathers

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancestors":

   forefathers, forebears, ancestry, great-grandfathers, predecessors, progenitors, ascendants, forbears, ancestries, fathers, grandfathers

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1. Cyril Connolly:

   What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

2. Ruth Hopkins:

   It's wrong for him to use the portraits of our ancestors for personal gain.

3. Donald Trump:

   This is 140-year-old legal structure, we're dealing with the most recent iteration of it, but this is not new. This was -- the same question might have been asked when my Italian immigrants were coming, immigrant ancestors were coming in and all through that 140 years. So we're -- we're not doing anything new here, we're simply making effective what Congress had already put on the books. So there's no reason for any particular group to feel like this is targeting them. This will apply across the world.

4. Zhang Hanwen:

   We didn't foresee this result, conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the role of archaic humans in wiping out prehistoric elephants, ever since big game hunting became a crucial part of our ancestors' subsistence strategy around 1.5 million years ago.

5. Daniel J. Boorstin:

   As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.