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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
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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