Get to know Progenitor better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like primogenitor or ancestor.
Progenitor meaning
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- An ancestral form of a species.
Synonyms of Progenitor
Using Progenitor
- The main meaning on this page is: A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors. | A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended. | An ancestral form of a species.
- Useful related words include: primogenitor, ancestor, ascendant, ascendent.
- In the example corpus, progenitor often appears in combinations such as: the progenitor, progenitor of, progenitor cells.
Context around Progenitor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Progenitor
- In this selection, "progenitor" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, yoruba, malignant, ancestral, virus, members and reveals stand out and add context to how "progenitor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abraham the progenitor and first and as the progenitor of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "progenitor" sits close to words such as abstractions, accosted and adair, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with progenitor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Can this remake reach the lofty heights of its progenitor? (10 words)
That’s 115,000 different species, and here was their progenitor. (11 words)
Little wonder, the street was in September 2018 renamed after his ancestral progenitor. (13 words)
Rosner is not the first to use a hair dryer to rid excess moisture on meat before cooking - she credits cookbook author Marcella Hazan as "the progenitor of the idea" in the 1970s - but she probably is the first to use a luxury hair tool for the process. (48 words)
As this crisis led to the creation of a destructive artificial Celestial called the Progenitor, members of the Quiet Council fought alongside the Eternals and Avengers. (26 words)
In order to end the conflict, rogue Eternals worked with the Avengers and Mister Sinister to create a new Celestial god for the Eternals, the Progenitor. (26 words)
It’d be a demotion from her prior role as the franchise’s progenitor of most plotlines and feuds, but isn’t she jobless right now? (26 words)
Can this remake reach the lofty heights of its progenitor? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
And it was really fun to try to tackle the idea of Kirk's progenitor.
As this crisis led to the creation of a destructive artificial Celestial called the Progenitor, members of the Quiet Council fought alongside the Eternals and Avengers.
In order to end the conflict, rogue Eternals worked with the Avengers and Mister Sinister to create a new Celestial god for the Eternals, the Progenitor.
It commemorates the god of Iron, “Ogun,” considered the first son of Oduduwa, the Yoruba progenitor.
Together they would discover the origins of the Progenitor virus and uncover Spencer's creation of Umbrella Pharmaceuticals as a tool to achieve immortality.
Bonello tells the background story of how his father (a progenitor of Peter Ustinov) lost his kingdom, and his life, to the British army.
Moreover, the Progenitor reveals that a species that came even before them created the realm they are in.
Oyo is also the ancestral home of the great Alaafin Oranmiyan, the progenitor of the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi.
It’d be a demotion from her prior role as the franchise’s progenitor of most plotlines and feuds, but isn’t she jobless right now?
Leading the invasion is none other than Second Progenitor Rígr Stafford, and he's after Yuichiro, who is once again on the run with Mika.
The progenitor of all chakra, Kaguya was so powerful that she could even teleport her opponents to different dimensions.
This means the Nemesis Alpha parasite is, again, its own creation separate from the T-Virus and Progenitor virus.
That’s 115,000 different species, and here was their progenitor.
According to Jewish tradition, the Rock is where Abraham, the progenitor and first patriarch of the Hebrew people, had prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac.
Can this remake reach the lofty heights of its progenitor?
Early clinical data suggest imetelstat may have disease-modifying activity through the suppression of malignant progenitor cell clone proliferation, which allows potential recovery of normal hematopoiesis.
Essentially, the progenitor of the Macintosh conceded defeat in the great PC versus Mac battle, a dark day for Apple’s fans.
Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar (and half-brother of Isaac), is the progenitor of the Arab nation.
Little wonder, the street was in September 2018 renamed after his ancestral progenitor.
Rosner is not the first to use a hair dryer to rid excess moisture on meat before cooking - she credits cookbook author Marcella Hazan as "the progenitor of the idea" in the 1970s - but she probably is the first to use a luxury hair tool for the process.
Common combinations with progenitor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the progenitor 24×
- progenitor of 19×
- progenitor cells 8×
- and progenitor 3×
- progenitor cell 3×
- of progenitor 3×
- progenitor star 3×
- progenitor and 2×
- progenitor virus 2×
- progenitor for 2×