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trancestors

trancestors is the plural of trancestor.

Meaning of trancestor

Noun

trancestor (plural trancestors)

  1. (rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.
    • page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a...2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, →ISBN

Questions about trancestors

What is trancestors the plural of?
Trancestors is the plural of trancestor.

Words near trancestors in the dictionary

  1. trances
  2. trances out
  3. trancester
  4. trancesters
  5. trancestor
  6. trancestors
  7. trancework
  8. trancey
  9. tranch
  10. tranche
  11. tranched

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