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单词 forefather
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Definition of forefather in English:

forefather

noun ˈfɔːfɑːðəˈfɔrˌfɑðər
usually one's forefathers
  • 1A member of the past generations of one's family or people; an ancestor.

    the duchy which her forefathers had ruled since the tenth century
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Otho's father, three times mayor of Exeter, was John, and his forefathers in four preceding generations were all either John or William.
    • It's been passed on and passed on by our forefathers and foremothers throughout time.
    • That is, neither we, our forefathers, nor our progeny would have been or would be able to survive if one followed this rule.
    • One hundred years ago today, your forefathers declared independence from the tyranny of the rule of my forefathers.
    • His forefathers had owned a massive vineyard for the past 5 decades and it had passed on to Giovanni once his father had died.
    • My children know that, in addition to their Indonesian and Chinese ancestors, they also have Scottish and Irish forefathers.
    • He says that the blood which ran through the veins of his family's forefathers runs through his own and his son's veins too.
    • For many generations, my forefathers have been lumbermen, loggers and mill workers.
    • It must be an absolute tragedy for people to know that the language of their forefathers and foremothers would possibly be lost.
    • Peasants left the land their forefathers had farmed for generations.
    • With scraps and fabric recycling, you can be creative and frugal and all those things our foremothers and forefathers were when they were sewing at home.
    • They enact the roles they have imbibed from their forefathers acting successively over seven generations.
    • Generations of his forefathers had worked as miners, loyal to the union and at major risk of terrible injuries as they worked the kingdom's coal seams.
    • These crimes were not perpetrated by this generation; rather by their forefathers.
    • It depicts what our forefathers had to endure in the past.
    • The thrust of the campaign is to ensure that coming generations too experience Sabarimala just like their forefathers did.
    • Think back on all of his forefathers, and tell me his family is worthy of salvation.
    • You are destroying a nation that our forefathers, fathers and the present generation fought and died for.
    • Like their forefathers, the present generation also has to put up with the stench.
    • Our forefathers and foremothers were human, made of flesh and blood.
    Synonyms
    forebear, ancestor, predecessor, progenitor, father, grandfather, parent, grandparent
    antecedent, forerunner, precursor
    rare primogenitor
    1. 1.1 A precursor of a particular movement.
      the forefathers of modern British socialism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The poems of Atal Bihari Vajpayee that I picked to sing in Samvedna were written decades ago when he was still inspired by the legacy of our political forefathers.
      • Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants.
      • They managed to restore the past glory of this forefather of the comic book industry - largely developed by American Jews after the Depression and reaching its heights in the '60s.
      • It was a seminal collection of work, and he was a forefather to the surrealist movement, as I later found out, and was deeply influential to Marcel Duchamp.
      • John Lounsbury, a forefather of the middle school movement, stated there is ‘a charge to keep’.
      • Certainly books about books do take us back to our literary forefathers and foremothers and back into the often distant historical past.
      • Clearly, Smith developed an analysis of lobbying that was the forefather of modern neoclassical political economy.
      • Take, for example, the fact that while Lovecraft is usually described as a forefather of modern horror fiction, his stories are, to put it bluntly, not very scary.
      • It's also entirely likely that we have not come of age and I might be the forefather of a hundred generations of priests designated the holy task of worshipping the artefacts.
      • It is through these copies that God chose to provide his Word to our forefathers in the faith, as also to our generation and beyond.
      • Furthermore, his post as the forefather of opera was seriously questioned and negated.
      • He was one of the forefathers that pioneered the kind of government we have today.
      • Please, in every decision made on behalf of the people as is your duty, make choices that this nation's forefathers would appreciate and future generations will benefit from.
      • In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as one of the forefathers of rock music.
      • These bands are the forefathers of this movement.
      • If the forefathers of modern Witchcraft experimented why can't we?
      • These are the forefathers of the American ‘redneck’.
      • I am eager, though, to see all the fathers and forefathers of French art, so I can form a very different opinion of France.
      Synonyms
      forerunner, predecessor, father, parent, antecedent, ancestor, forebear, progenitor
 
 

Definition of forefather in US English:

forefather

nounˈfôrˌfäT͟Hərˈfɔrˌfɑðər
usually one's forefathers
  • 1A member of the past generations of one's family or people; an ancestor.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's been passed on and passed on by our forefathers and foremothers throughout time.
    • One hundred years ago today, your forefathers declared independence from the tyranny of the rule of my forefathers.
    • With scraps and fabric recycling, you can be creative and frugal and all those things our foremothers and forefathers were when they were sewing at home.
    • They enact the roles they have imbibed from their forefathers acting successively over seven generations.
    • That is, neither we, our forefathers, nor our progeny would have been or would be able to survive if one followed this rule.
    • Otho's father, three times mayor of Exeter, was John, and his forefathers in four preceding generations were all either John or William.
    • The thrust of the campaign is to ensure that coming generations too experience Sabarimala just like their forefathers did.
    • It must be an absolute tragedy for people to know that the language of their forefathers and foremothers would possibly be lost.
    • Our forefathers and foremothers were human, made of flesh and blood.
    • You are destroying a nation that our forefathers, fathers and the present generation fought and died for.
    • Generations of his forefathers had worked as miners, loyal to the union and at major risk of terrible injuries as they worked the kingdom's coal seams.
    • Like their forefathers, the present generation also has to put up with the stench.
    • My children know that, in addition to their Indonesian and Chinese ancestors, they also have Scottish and Irish forefathers.
    • It depicts what our forefathers had to endure in the past.
    • For many generations, my forefathers have been lumbermen, loggers and mill workers.
    • These crimes were not perpetrated by this generation; rather by their forefathers.
    • Think back on all of his forefathers, and tell me his family is worthy of salvation.
    • His forefathers had owned a massive vineyard for the past 5 decades and it had passed on to Giovanni once his father had died.
    • He says that the blood which ran through the veins of his family's forefathers runs through his own and his son's veins too.
    • Peasants left the land their forefathers had farmed for generations.
    Synonyms
    forebear, ancestor, predecessor, progenitor, father, grandfather, parent, grandparent
    1. 1.1 A precursor of a particular movement.
      the forefathers of rock 'n' roll
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was a seminal collection of work, and he was a forefather to the surrealist movement, as I later found out, and was deeply influential to Marcel Duchamp.
      • Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants.
      • Take, for example, the fact that while Lovecraft is usually described as a forefather of modern horror fiction, his stories are, to put it bluntly, not very scary.
      • Certainly books about books do take us back to our literary forefathers and foremothers and back into the often distant historical past.
      • Clearly, Smith developed an analysis of lobbying that was the forefather of modern neoclassical political economy.
      • Furthermore, his post as the forefather of opera was seriously questioned and negated.
      • It is through these copies that God chose to provide his Word to our forefathers in the faith, as also to our generation and beyond.
      • If the forefathers of modern Witchcraft experimented why can't we?
      • I am eager, though, to see all the fathers and forefathers of French art, so I can form a very different opinion of France.
      • In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as one of the forefathers of rock music.
      • He was one of the forefathers that pioneered the kind of government we have today.
      • They managed to restore the past glory of this forefather of the comic book industry - largely developed by American Jews after the Depression and reaching its heights in the '60s.
      • The poems of Atal Bihari Vajpayee that I picked to sing in Samvedna were written decades ago when he was still inspired by the legacy of our political forefathers.
      • These are the forefathers of the American ‘redneck’.
      • It's also entirely likely that we have not come of age and I might be the forefather of a hundred generations of priests designated the holy task of worshipping the artefacts.
      • Please, in every decision made on behalf of the people as is your duty, make choices that this nation's forefathers would appreciate and future generations will benefit from.
      • These bands are the forefathers of this movement.
      • John Lounsbury, a forefather of the middle school movement, stated there is ‘a charge to keep’.
      Synonyms
      forerunner, predecessor, father, parent, antecedent, ancestor, forebear, progenitor
 
 
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