Definition of Foremother

1. Noun. A woman ancestor.


Definition of Foremother

1. n. A female ancestor.

Definition of Foremother

1. Noun. a female ancestor ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foremother

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Foremother

1. A female ancestor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foremother

foremasts
foremath
foremean
foremeans
foremeant
foremen
forementioned
foremilk
foremilks
foremind
foreminded
foreminding
foreminds
foremost
foremostly
foremother (current term)
foremothers
forename
forenamed
forenames
forenenst
forenight
forenights
forenoon
forenoons
forenotice
forenotices
forensal
forensic
forensic anthropology

Literary usage of Foremother

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Report of the Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the City of by Edward A. Roberts (1896)
"The foremother's life was one eternal grind. She made cheese on a tub on the floor ... Fortunately for the foremother she had plenty of grass. so that when ..."

2. History of the Western Reserve by Harriet Taylor Upton, Harry Gardner Cutler (1910)
"However, each foremother seemed to find a way to bring something to her new crude ... One of the plainest women in Portage county, who was a foremother, ..."

3. The Marvels of Modern Mechanism and Their Relation to Social Betterment by Jerome Bruce Crabtree (1901)
"Like Solomon's wise woman, our foremother arose with the sun. It was original sin to be lazy. Satan in those days found no "idle hands" with which to do ..."

4. Publications by Dorset Record Society, Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, Ohio Historical Society (1896)
"So that lady does not know that her grandfather, William, Marquis of Seaforth, had a sister, which sister was a foremother to my Ousan Oglu, who has not as ..."

5. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, William Sherwood Fox, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"He begat Hellen through his union with Pyrrha ("Ruddy Earth"), who was thus made the foremother of the Hellenes; by Dia ("Divine Earth"), he became the ..."

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