GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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Mythical creatures
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Everyone who has ever lived
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A relative who lived in the past
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All the women in a family
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Detailed explanation-1: -An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is “any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."
Detailed explanation-2: -For example, your aunts and uncles are your relatives but not your ancestors, because you don’t descend from them. A common ancestor is someone you and a relative both descend from. For example, your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are all common ancestors to you and your siblings.
Detailed explanation-3: -ancestor. a relative who lived in the past.
Detailed explanation-4: -: one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent. Her ancestors came to America in the 1880s. : forefather sense 2. : forerunner, prototype.