Usually means: Female ancestor, typically from past.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. ancestress: Merriam-Webster
  2. ancestress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ancestress: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ancestress: Vocabulary.com
  5. ancestress: Wordnik
  6. ancestress: Wiktionary
  7. ancestress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ancestress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Ancestress, ancestress: Dictionary.com
  10. The Ancestress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ancestress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ancestress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ancestress: Rhymezone
  14. Ancestress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ancestress: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ancestress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. ancestress: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. ancestress: Infoplease Dictionary
  19. ancestress: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ancestress: Legal dictionary

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  1. ancestress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. ancestress: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (dated) A female ancestor.

Similar:
ancestrix, ancestry, grandmother, foremother, progenitrix, mother, daughter, progenitress, predecessoress, primogenitrix, more...

Adjectives:
common, great, divine, first, remote, female, founding, mythical, direct, old, original

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Similar:
ancestrix, ancestry, grandmother, foremother, progenitrix, mother, daughter, progenitress, predecessoress, primogenitrix, more...

Adjectives:
common, great, divine, first, remote, female, founding, mythical, direct, old, original



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