n.[C][(+of)]

1. （人、動植物的）祖先
2. 【文】前輩，先驅，始祖
   Schoenberg was a progenitor of modern music.

   勛伯格是一位現代音樂的先驅。

3. （文件的）原本，正本

n.

1. an ancestor or parent.
2. the originator of an artistic, political, or intellectual movement.