#ancestor__ascendant__ascendent__antecedent__root someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent)
exclusion: #descendant
supertype: #relative__relation a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
subtype: #ancestress a woman ancestor
subtype: #forebear__forbear a person from whom you are descended
subtype: #grandparent a parent of your father or mother
subtype: #grandfather__gramps__granddad__grandad__granddaddy__grandpa the father of your father or mother
subtype: #grandma__grandmother__granny__grannie__gran the mother of your father or mother
subtype: #nan.grandma (British) your grandmother
subtype: #great_grandparent__greatgrandparent a parent of your grandparent
subtype: #great_grandmother__greatgrandmother a mother of your grandparent
subtype: #great_grandfather__greatgrandfather a father of your grandparent
subtype: #forefather.ancestor__father__sire the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"
subtype: #patriarch any of the early Biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
subtype: #antediluvian_patriarch__antediluvian any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
subtype: #Jacob (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
subtype: #Simeon (Old Testament) the 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel
instance: #Abraham #Benjamin #Isaac #Ishmael #Issachar #Joseph #Joseph.patriarch__joseph #Judah #Methuselah #Noah #Reuben.patriarch__reuben
subtype: #foremother a woman ancestor
subtype: #progenitor__primogenitor an ancestor in the direct line
subtype: #genitor a natural father or mother
subtype: #parent a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
subtype: #adoptive_parent__adopter a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
subtype: #father__male_parent__begetter a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"
subtype: #dad__dada__daddy__pa__papa__pappa__pater__pop an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
subtype: #father-in-law the father of your spouse
subtype: #old_man informal term for your father
subtype: #mother__female_parent a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
subtype: #ma__mama__mamma__mom__momma__mommy__mammy__mum__mummy__mater informal terms for a mother
subtype: #mother-in-law the mother of your spouse
instance: #Naomi__Noemi
subtype: #primipara__para_I (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
subtype: #puerpera a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter
subtype: #quadripara (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies
subtype: #quintipara (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies
subtype: #surrogate_mother__surrogatemother a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so; "a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term"
instance: #Virgin_Mary__Mary__The_Virgin__Madonna
subtype: #stepparent the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage
subtype: #stepfather the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage
subtype: #stepmother the wife of your husband by a subsequent marriage
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