ancestral

What does ancestral mean?

ancestral means "inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ancestral?

ancestral has 3 syllables: an-ces-tral. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /ænˈsɛstɹəl/.

What is another word for ancestral?

Close synonyms include hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ancestral a common word?

ancestral is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ancestral come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.