Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

09792555-n ✪ 'someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)';

Chinese (simplified)	祖先 , 祖宗
English	ancestor ₂ ( ⊳ ⊳ ⇔ ) , antecedent ₁ ( ⊳ ) , root , ascendant , ascendent
Indonesian	akar kata , keturunan , datuk poyang , salasilah , nenek moyang , leluhur
Japanese	祖 , 先人 , 先世 , 先祖 , 御祖 , 世祖 , 祖先 , 先つ祖 , ルーツ , 始祖 , 曩祖 , 高祖

Definitions

English: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Japanese: 自分が系統を引く（通常、祖父母よりも遠い）人

Relations

Hyponym:	ancestress forebear forefather foremother progenitor
Hypernym:	relative
Antonym:	descendant
Semantic Field:	person_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.078)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.12 -0.12)