Synonyms of forefathers

forefathers

noun

plural of forefather

as in ancestors

a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent

our forefathers bought this farm, and our family has worked it for three generations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestors
• grandfathers
• fathers
• forebears
• progenitors
• forebearers
• grandmothers
• predecessors
• primogenitors
• foremothers
• patriarchs
• matriarchs
• grandsires
• ancestresses
• ancestries
• antecedents
• antecessors
• sires
• roots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• descendants
• children
• families
• offspring
• issues
• seed
• sons
• daughters
• lineages
• stocks
• heirs
• successors
• progenies
• posterities
• inheritors
• scions

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of forefathers

But the truth is that our forefathers were sufficiently individualistic to be iconoclastic. — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026

Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success. — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte. — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2026

The clubs, civic organizations and community events that once brought our forefathers together are largely fading away. — Judith Martin, Dallas Morning News, 10 Mar. 2026

The Nuggets forefathers witnessed him before the rest of Denver, as if it was meant to be that Jamal Murray would become one of them. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2026

Yet, without ceasing, another generation of Puerto Ricans pick up the mantle to chant in the streets and fight for their country, out of love for their forefathers and foremothers. — Taylor Crumpton, Time, 10 Feb. 2026

Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to get away from a tyrannical monarch and indifferent legislators, not to create our own homegrown version of it. — Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026

The Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Constitution Center, the Museum of the American Revolution, and smaller outfits like Eastern State Penitentiary and Historic Germantown will, as expected, reimagine the history of our republic in an homage to the forefathers’ ingenuity. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026