Definition of ancestress in US English:
ancestress
nounˈænˌsɛstrəsˈanˌsestrəs
A woman, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
Example sentencesExamples
- After a minute or two my beautiful ancestress would disappear briefly, soon to return with the satisfaction of a duty performed.
- Specifically, she argues that visual art has primarily been a female tradition, started by ancient ancestresses that influenced their descendants to be more cooperative with each other.
- It is not only the passing of the Copley ancestress that is being noticed, but the reckless and desperate collapse of the old economic order - those sherry-sipping ‘poised relations’ waiting for the will to be read.
- Let me picture him dying, my ancestress by his side, happy after years of love.
- Once upon a time, my ancestresses knelt in great forests alone or with sisters of their kind.