Ancient and Ancestral

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Ancestral and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ancestral" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Ancestral adjective - Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor.

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Ancient and ancestral are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Ancestral".

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestor, ancestrally

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