They were erected to commemorate a certain event or to tell an ancestral legend.
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Ancestral
//ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl//
Synonyms for "ancestral" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
12 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- avial adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 祖傳的 /祖传的 adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- 祖先的 adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Finnish
2 entries- esi-isiltä peritty adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- perintö adj (pertaining to ancestors)
French
1 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Friulian
1 entries- ancestrâl adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Galician
1 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
German
4 entries- Ahnen adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- Vorfahren adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- altüberliefert adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- angestammt adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Hindi
1 entries- पैतृक adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Ido
1 entries- ancestrala adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Italian
4 entries- ancestrale adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- atavico adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- avito adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- primordiale adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Japanese
1 entries- 先祖の adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Latin
2 entries- maternus adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- paternus adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Manx
1 entries- dooghyssagh adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Polish
2 entries- ancestralny adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- antenacki adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Portuguese
2 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- antepassado adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Romanian
1 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Russian
1 entries- пото́мственный adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Spanish
1 entries- ancestral adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Telugu
1 entries- పిత్రార్జితము adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Venetan
3 entries- ancestrałe adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- atàvego adj (pertaining to ancestors)
- primordiałe adj (pertaining to ancestors)
Sample sentences
35 total sentences available.
Our ancestral home is in Tongli, Jiangsu.
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A mirror is better than an entire row of ancestral portraits.
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All countries have a responsibility to preserve the ancestral relics of every people group within their borders, and to pass these on to the coming generations.
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