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Definition of forebear in English: forebear(also forbear) nounˈfɔːbɛːˈfɔrbɛr usually one's forebearsAn ancestor. generations of his forebears had lived in London Example sentencesExamples - But a congregation of Christian believers are not able to use it and love it as the holy space that it was for generations of their forebears.
- We must erect a national monument to our forebears who lived and died in U.S. slavery.
- It does not really take very much time over a family lunch to begin to enquire about one's forebears.
- In this, they are deploying a weapon their forebears did not have.
- No longer do young people absorb information about their forebears from grandparents.
- Many of his forebears had colonial ties and his father spent his career in India.
- These tales are filled with the blood and tears of my forebears.
- One cannot hope to rise or succeed in the world unless one's forebears had the requisite abilities.
- They lived among a large majority of black people, whose forebears they had exploited and abused.
- A small estate winery, located west of St. Catharines on 80 acres of land first deeded to family forebear in 1794.
- My forebear was, according to the family account, very depressed when his teeth started falling out when he was in late middle age.
- Your personality, life course and career will have no necessary relation to that of your forebear.
- We think our readers will be surprised and encouraged to discover that the forebear of fundamentalism was a true Baptist guided by historic convictions.
- What the Council might have said more explicitly is that their forebears are also our forebears.
- I'm sorry, your forebears must have lived in a parallel universe to mine. Is this the Victorian age of the Little Match Girl?
- Present generations need to know about their forebears, he said.
- But their forebears were, generations ago, driven from this area by European settlers.
- As a child, I heard the stories from my father about our notable forebear, an honest man who was saved from a massacre, the sole survivor.
- Gilbert and George were the forebears of an artistic generation that holds everything to be ironic.
- I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
Synonyms ancestor, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, father, grandfather, parent, grandparent antecedent, forerunner, precursor rare primogenitor
Origin Late 15th century: from fore + bear, variant of obsolete beer 'someone who exists' (from be + -er1). Definition of forebear in US English: forebear(also forbear) nounˈfɔrbɛrˈfôrber usually one's forebearsAn ancestor. generations of his forebears had lived in London Example sentencesExamples - But a congregation of Christian believers are not able to use it and love it as the holy space that it was for generations of their forebears.
- A small estate winery, located west of St. Catharines on 80 acres of land first deeded to family forebear in 1794.
- My forebear was, according to the family account, very depressed when his teeth started falling out when he was in late middle age.
- They lived among a large majority of black people, whose forebears they had exploited and abused.
- Present generations need to know about their forebears, he said.
- One cannot hope to rise or succeed in the world unless one's forebears had the requisite abilities.
- We must erect a national monument to our forebears who lived and died in U.S. slavery.
- In this, they are deploying a weapon their forebears did not have.
- Gilbert and George were the forebears of an artistic generation that holds everything to be ironic.
- These tales are filled with the blood and tears of my forebears.
- No longer do young people absorb information about their forebears from grandparents.
- I'm sorry, your forebears must have lived in a parallel universe to mine. Is this the Victorian age of the Little Match Girl?
- I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
- Your personality, life course and career will have no necessary relation to that of your forebear.
- Many of his forebears had colonial ties and his father spent his career in India.
- As a child, I heard the stories from my father about our notable forebear, an honest man who was saved from a massacre, the sole survivor.
- We think our readers will be surprised and encouraged to discover that the forebear of fundamentalism was a true Baptist guided by historic convictions.
- But their forebears were, generations ago, driven from this area by European settlers.
- It does not really take very much time over a family lunch to begin to enquire about one's forebears.
- What the Council might have said more explicitly is that their forebears are also our forebears.
Synonyms ancestor, forefather, predecessor, progenitor, father, grandfather, parent, grandparent
Origin Late 15th century: from fore + bear, variant of obsolete beer ‘someone who exists’ (from be + -er). |