Ancestor and Chief

Ancestor

Ancestor noun - A person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent.

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Chief and ancestor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Chief" instead a noun "Ancestor".

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestral, ancestress

Chief noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.

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Ancestor and chief are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestor" instead a noun "Chief".

Nearby Word: chiefly

female	female ancestor	female chief
complete	complete ancestor	complete chief
original	original ancestor	original chief
many	many ancestor	many chief
Other adjectives: dead, nasty, actual, black, main, famous, white, past, mysterious, last.

Bluegrass is a category of Appalachian music and is one of the two chief ancestors of modern popular music; the other ancestor, blues, has many Appalachian characteristics.

Source: Useful Notes / Appalachia
Might & Magic: Heores VI gives the backstory of his Ashan incarnation: When war-chief Kunyak led the rest of the orcs in a slave uprising and exodus, Maximus' ancestor chose to remain living in the human lands.

Source: Monster Knight
Their ancestor Chief Stonebear and three others hid away the Book to prevent its evil from spreading.

Source: Series / Shoebox Zoo

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