Ancestor and Line

Ancestor

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

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

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestral, ancestress

Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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Ancestor and line are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestor" instead a noun "Line".

Nearby Words: lined, linear, lineup, lineage, lineal

good	good ancestor	good line
female	female ancestor	female line
common	common ancestor	common line
direct	direct ancestor	direct line
Other adjectives: perfect, original, dead, actual, male, great, infamous, black, main, famous, white, royal, last, literal, earlier, evolutionary.

Kerena (Nox, Incarnation of Night) is a distant ancestor of Orlene's dead husband, and accidentally introduced into her line the curse that would kill Orlene's child.

Source: One Degree of Separation
This has never been explained, but fans usually agree that he must have a gaijin ancestor somewhere in his family line.

Source: Phenotype Stereotype
In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, she's the only known survivor of the royal line, although her ancient ancestor, the antediluvian King of Hyrule, is still alive.

Source: Everything's Better with Princesses

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