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ancestress

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An´ces`tress
n.1.A female ancestor.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ancestress - a woman ancestor
ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root - someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Translations
ancestress (o.f.) [ˈænsɪstrɪs] N → antepasada f
ancestress
n → Vorfahrin f, → Ahne f; (= progenitor) → Ahnfrau f, → Stammmutter f


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Welland interposed, with the proper affectation of reluctance; to which the ancestress rejoined: "Know each other?
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
And did not Biddy trace to Erin, mother and star of the breed, through a long descendant out of Breda Mixer, herself an ancestress of Breda Muddler?
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel" afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers --all kith and kin to noble Benjamin --this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.
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