FOREBEAR Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

forebear

noun

ˈfȯr-ˌber

variants also forbear

as in ancestor

a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent his forebears came to America on the Mayflower

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Recent Examples on the Web Advertisement Spain rebuffed the president’s demands, with government officials telling journalists that the nation’s current leaders should not be held responsible for the actions of their forebears. —

Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024 One of her maternal forebears was a slave-ship captain; another was a civil-rights lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School. —

Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024 Continuing the standards and customs of her Grenadian forebears is important to Nyack Compton. —

Grace White, Essence, 9 Aug. 2024 After her nomination, reporters dug into her genealogy – and that of her husband’s, whose earliest ancestors crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower while Jackson’s forebears had been brought from Africa in chains. —

Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for forebear

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