Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #1316 of 1319

ancestral (adj.)

inherited from ancestors

Examples

  • Ancestral lands.

Key rules

  • Ancestral means inherited from ancestors
  • Ancestral lands, ancestral home
  • Ancestor is the noun

Common mistakes

  • The ancestral of the home → The ancestral home
💡 Tip: Family history // Culture // Land
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