ancestor
ancestor, n. A person from whom an estate has passed; ASCENDANT. • This word is the correlative of heir. Cf. HEIR(1). common ancestor. A person to whom the ancestry of two or more persons is traced.
ancestor, n. A person from whom an estate has passed; ASCENDANT. • This word is the correlative of heir. Cf. HEIR(1). common ancestor. A person to whom the ancestry of two or more persons is traced.