| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, mother, parent, progenitor. Archaic : predecessor. See KIN, PRECEDE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Having preeminent significance: dominant, predominant, prepotent, prevailing, regnant, ruling, supreme. See IMPORTANT.
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