progenitors

NOUN

family

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clan folk group house household people tribe

STRONG

ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children class descendants descent dynasty extraction forebears genealogy generations genre in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system

WEAK

heirs and assigns kith and kin menage ménage

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

NOUN

lineage

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clan descent genealogy origin pedigree

STRONG

birth blood breed descendants extraction family folk forebears heredity house kin kindred line offspring progeny race stock succession tribe

WEAK

stirps

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

NOUN

menage

Synonyms

STRONG

ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children clan class descendants descent dynasty extraction folk forebears genealogy generations genre group house household in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree people progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system tribe

WEAK

heirs and assigns kith and kin ménage

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

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We are fond of searching into remote Antiquity, to know the Manners of our earliest Progenitors; and, if I am not mistaken, the Indians are living Images of them.

From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Part I, Part II by Colden, Cadwallader

Daksha was one of the ancient Progenitors or Prajápatis created by Brahmá.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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