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Definition of Forefather

1. Noun. The founder of a family. "Keep the faith of our forefathers"

2. Noun. Person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group. "Our forefathers brought forth a great nation"

Definition of Forefather

1. n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

Definition of Forefather

1. Noun. Ancestor ¹

2. Noun. Cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition ¹

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Definition of Forefather

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefather

foredispose foredisposed foredisposes foredisposing foredo foredoes foredoing foredone foredoom foredoomed

foredooming foredooms foredraft foreface forefaces forefather (current term) forefathers forefeel forefeeling forefeels

forefeet forefelt forefence forefences forefend forefended forefending forefends forefinger forefingers

Literary usage of Forefather

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Representative Eng- luh Comedies (New York, 1903) ; IDEM, Playt of Our forefather! (London and New York, 1908); MANLY, Specimens of ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in them a productive seed which developed into a golden egg, bo was born in that egg »a the male Brahma, the forefather (and creator) of all beings. ..."

3. The Old and Middle English by Thomas Laurence Kington Oliphant (1878)
"... and becomes forfader, our forefather; this form was unknown in the South, and is written in the Southern Version, formaste fadir. ..."

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