Ancestor and Source

Ancestor

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

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

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestral, ancestress

Source noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.

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Ancestor and source are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestor" instead a noun "Source".

known	known ancestor	known source
good	good ancestor	good source
common	common ancestor	common source
original	original ancestor	original source
Other adjectives: true, single, divine, likely, powerful, actual, great, main, ultimate, possible, apparent, mysterious, greatest.

The full explanation is not revealed for several chapters: Masaki was a Quincy, and Yhwach is the progenitor of all Quincies and source of their powers — hence he's also the ancestor of Ichigo's Aloof Ally and second cousin Uryu.

Source: Luke, I Am Your Father
Molly Grue is played by Heartstrings, an Identical Ancestor of the G4 pony Lyra Heartstrings (and implied to be the source of Lyra's fanon obsession with humans).

Source: Fanfic / The Last Human: A Tale of the Pre-Classical Era
Averted because the source of the radiation was the time traveller Named Storyteller deliberately showing up at that moment to perform the gene manipulation that the scientists were incapable of performing, in order to make sure that Carl (his distant ancestor) existed at all.

Source: Freak Lab Accident

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