Ancestor is valid Scrabble Word

Is ancestor a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for ANCESTOR in dictionary:

VERB:

to be an ancestor to

NOUN:

someone from whom a person is descended, a forefather
an early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved
an early version of a machine, system, etc.
a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father\'s or mother\'s side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
person from whom one is descended

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be an ancestor (a person from whom one is descended) of

Words related to ANCESTOR

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Words that contain ANCESTOR

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How to use ANCESTOR in a sentence

We Englishmen are proud to have an ancestor who was present at the Battle of Hastings.
He has sadly degenerated from the type of his Guebre ancestor.
Nor need you bother your head with the name of the distant ancestor.
The possibility that he, a Protestant, might wield the sceptre of Saint Louis, his ancestor, increased the bitterness and animosity of the Catholics.
Here I come along with an ancestor eight generations back, painted by Velasquez.
You were like the fighting man, your ancestor, and your airy confidence was his.
Lawrence was the ancestor of the persons of this name in Schoharie County.
The estate now belongs to the Earl of Clarendon, to whose ancestor, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, it was given by Charles II.
Robert gave the son born to him in 1027 the name of his glorious ancestor, William Longsword, the son and successor of Rollo.
As the Fathers were not acquainted with the existence of America, they did not provide an ancestor for its people.

Caswall knew enough about the life of his ancestor in Paris to wish to know more fully and more thoroughly all that had been.
John Conwell, the English Ancestor who fought for the Preservation of the English Language.
It was used only in religious ceremonies, and may be considered as the ancestor of the bell that is rung at the elevation of the Host in Roman Catholic churches.
Many years elapsed from the date when our heavenly ancestor descended until now it is over 1,792,470 years.
Each animated form that caught his attention might be the dwelling of some ancestor, or of some once cherished companion of his own.
Then, taking the name of his ancestor, Tupac-Amaru, he proclaimed himself the chief of all those who were in rebellion against the Spaniards.
Shu and Sibu succeeded Ra, but did not acquire so lasting a popularity as their great ancestor.
Men like your ancestor were certainly rare amongst them.
They formed a single family which claimed descent from a common ancestor.
In Jacob the Israelites saw their peculiar ancestor.
In the tenth chapter of Genesis Sheba is one of the sons of Joktan, the ancestor of the south Arabian tribes.
Add to all this, I deal much in poetry, as did our venerable ancestor, the Dean of St.
Once more amid surroundings with the like of which Henry Ware had been so familiar, the soul of his great ancestor seemed to have descended upon him.
His forehead was low and broad, and his aquiline nose, like his jet-black, almond-shaped eyes, betrayed an Indian ancestor.
My ancestor received greater marks of confidence than any before him, and his descendants have succeeded him for more than two hundred years.
To my inquiry as to whether Lord Grey of Groby was an ancestor, he was reticent, merely saying that the name was the same.
Zechariah Whitman, the youngest child of John, the original ancestor of the Whitman family.
O thou most vile, and the destruction of thy friends, what hast thou done to me! May Jove, my ancestor, tear thee up by the roots, having stricken thee by his fire.
His first Canadian ancestor, Augustin Hebert, was one of the little band of soldier colonists who, under the leadership of Maisonneuve founded Montreal in 1641.

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