ancestral village

collocation in English

meaningsofancestralandvillage

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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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village
noun
uk
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/
a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in ...
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(Definition ofancestralandvillagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was deeply engaged in a transnational clan organisation and frequently came to hisancestralvillageto worship his lineage's ancestors.
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Connected with that is the importance of the family grave in theancestralvillage.
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He refers to herancestralvillageas his hometown.
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Once taken away from hisancestralvillage, then he never turned up, not then, not ever.
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It also may describe theancestralvillageof the family when used as the actual surname.
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Anancestralvillageusually features a hall and shrine honouring ancestral clan members.
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Traditionally, they have been traders and most of them have the suffix "wala" in their last name to designate either their ancestral trade or theirancestralvillage.
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Balinese society continues to revolve around each family'sancestralvillage, to which the cycle of life and religion is closely tied.
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The former refers to anancestralvillagelocated on a ridge above the area in which the speakers now reside.
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When members of a clan form a new village, they continue to visit the "jathera" in theancestralvillage.
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Rokhri is hisancestralvillage.
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He decides to sell his plantation spread across several acres in hisancestralvillageto a soap company.
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Src was sent back to herancestralvillageby her family and forced to marry a cousin there at the age of 16.
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The distress felt by the 180,000 refugees is caused not just by the loss of their property, but by the loss of their ancestral villages.
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With the exception of a small number of transients, most town populations consisted of permanent inhabitants who maintained connections with their ancestral villages through property or family ties.
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