"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ancestor sustantivo

sustantivo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 6
ancestor of the people • ancestor of the family • ancestor of the Earls • warrior ancestor • slave ancestor • ...
ancestor + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 8
ancestor worship • ancestor veneration • ancestor spirit • ancestor figure • ancestor language • ...
ancestor + verbo
Kolokacji: 56
ancestor comes • ancestor lives • ancestor migrates • ancestor settles • ancestor arrives • ...
verbo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 14
share an ancestor • inherit from one's ancestors • represent ancestors • derive from an ancestor • trace one's ancestors • ...
adjetivo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 79
common ancestor • direct ancestor • early ancestor • human ancestor • distant ancestor • recent ancestor • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 24
(1) common, single, shared
Kolokacji: 3
(3) early, primitive, primal
Kolokacji: 3
(4) human, apelike, simian
Kolokacji: 3
(5) distant, remote
Kolokacji: 2
(7) immediate, ultimate
Kolokacji: 2
(8) dead, deceased, long-dead
Kolokacji: 3
(11) female, male, evolutionary
Kolokacji: 3
(13) American, Scottish, English
Kolokacji: 3
(15) Irish, Celtic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) great, heroic
Kolokacji: 2
(20) Indian, tribal
Kolokacji: 2
1. Indian ancestor = Indyjski przodek Indian ancestor
  • We must look upon Latin America as our Indian ancestors did.
  • No rancher would admit to having an Indian ancestor.
  • I wonder if my deep respect for them is related to my Indian ancestors' respect for all natural forces.
  • And you shudder at the behaviour of your Indian ancestors.
  • In 1962 Masters learned what he had apparently long suspected, that he did indeed have a distant Indian ancestor.
  • He had ebony-dark hair, inherited from a true Indian ancestor who'd stolen a white girl and mated with her.
  • He stole as quietly as one of his Indian ancestors to where I lay very still.
  • The room held such vivid memories that it even evoked the history of my powerful Indian ancestors.
  • He seemed to belong more to his Indian ancestors now than to the world she understood.
  • It may be that its Indian ancestor had fewer strings, and that the most common type was a 7-string instrument (see above).
2. tribal ancestor = plemienny przodek tribal ancestor
(21) likely, possible, hypothetical
Kolokacji: 3
(22) closest, apical
Kolokacji: 2
(23) terrestrial, aquatic
Kolokacji: 2
(24) mammalian, reptilian
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + ancestor
Kolokacji: 12
of one's ancestors • to one's ancestors • with one's ancestors • for one's ancestors • from an ancestor • ...

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