ancestral land

collocation in English

meaningsofancestralandland

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ancestral
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ænˈses.trəl/us
/ænˈses.trəl/
relating to members of your family from ...
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land
noun
uk
/lænd/us
/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofancestralandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For instance, theancestrallandgoing with the lineage hall was situated at quite a distance from the latter building.
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Transformation, beginning through the agency of persons-the ritual specialists and mourners-is continued by trees and by theancestralland.
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People still believe that they can inheritancestralland.
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Examples of such privileges are inheritance ofancestrallandand business ownership on fulfilling their ' voluntary ' tax payments.
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I can assure him that they were not occupying theirancestralland.
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Their family assets consisted of the meagreancestralland.
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But he never accepted the offerings of the pious and stipends and grants by the government as hisancestrallandwas more than his needs.
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But during the night, in a storm, the group returned to theirancestralland.
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This law recognized theancestrallandrights of the indigenous people.
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In his case favoring diplomacy over confrontation helped his ability to stay on hisancestrallandfor most of his life.
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It inspired many youths to leave the city and return to their villages to look after theirancestralland.
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Those hamlets that were deemed to be tenable were consolidated, while the remainder were dismantled and their inhabitants returned to theirancestralland.
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But a small number of remained in theirancestralland.
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Montezumas hatred for the reservations softened once he saw how connected his people were to theirancestrallandand understood that they considered it home.
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In the 1960s, they were forced to sellancestrallandand went from having $10 million in a federal reserve to being considered a pocket of poverty.
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As well, they explicitly envision aboriginal peoples as 'natural environmentalists,' who, given tenure rights to their ancestral lands, will protect them from environmental degradation.
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In their ancestral lands, aboriginal peoples are freed from the payments for using forest resources that might be required of other citizens.
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They were given 14 days to leave, and monetary compensation was offered for their destroyed homes, fruit trees and crops but not for theirancestralland.
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Traditionally, the term is used as a title indicating the ownership ofancestralland, but in contemporary usage it is often taken as a surname or title.
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