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. Carleton Bowekaty:

   Today, instead of being removed from a landscape to make way for a public park, we are being invited back to our ancestral homelands to help repair them and plan for a resilient future.

2. Michal Feldman:

   This ancestral component is derived from Europe, or to be more specific, from southern Europe, so the ancestors of the Philistines must have traveled across the Mediterranean and arrived in Ashkelon sometime between the end of the Bronze age and the beginning of the Iron age, there would be a lot more that we can say if we had more data, for example we could maybe more precisely pinpoint the source of this migration.

3. Blake Flayton:

   If a Jew who is a liberal, who is left wing says,' I'm a Blake Flayton,' they're not given the space to explain all of what that means. That word means is that you support the Jewish right to self-determination in part of Julia Jassey ancestral homeland, not even specifying where the borders are, not even specifying which government they would like to see in charge in Israel, they're not given the space to explain that. They're banished.

4. Colleen Hanabusa:

   This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.

5. Elizabeth II:

   It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.