Meaning ofancestorin English

Noun

1. a person from whom one is directly descended; a progenitor
   My ancestor was a soldier in the war.
2. a predecessor in a role or function
   The company's ancestor was a small startup founded decades ago.
3. one from whom property is inherited
   The estate was inherited from a distant ancestor.
4. a word that originates a term in another language
   The word "father" is an ancestor of the term "paternal".