Personnes des générations précédentes de la famille de quelqu'un.
People from earlier generations of one's family.
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Elle a retracé ses ancêtres jusqu'à quatre siècles en arrière. — She traced her ancestors, going back four centuries.
Nos ancêtres, comme la plupart des agriculteurs, vivaient de la terre. — Our ancestors, like most farmers, lived off the land.
Elle garde des photographies de ses ancêtres, toutes soigneusement étiquetées. — She keeps photographs of her ancestors, all carefully labeled.
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