FOREMOTHER Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

foremother

noun

Definition of foremother

as in grandmother

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Recent Examples of foremother The show is partly Star's love letter to the glamour of Paris (a city he's been enamored with since his teens), with a protagonist who embodies both the winningest and messiest instincts of her foremother, Carrie Bradshaw. — Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023 No one emerges at the end of the book as entirely good or bad (save, perhaps, for Busia, Regan’s culinary foremother). — Makana Eyre, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023 In a year when avant-pop stars such as Rosalía thrilled with volcanic vocals and cybernetic beats, their foremother dug in yet-stranger soil. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022 Taking inspiration from her literary foremother Zora Neale Hurston, Walker centers southern Black women, who are all too often misrepresented in American culture. — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021 See All Example Sentences for foremother

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Noun

Growing up on Kansas City’s East Side, Johnson accompanied her grandmother on grocery-shopping trips that could include several stores.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
The closest relationship in his life is with his grandmother.

— Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of grandmother

Noun

Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.

— Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
His own mother, aged ninety, who remembered her aunt, had been able to share stories of their ancestress with the grandchildren who’d had no idea, before now, what their background might be.

— Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020

Definition of ancestress

Noun

His first project at the house was a film starring Demi Moore that imagined Gucci as a family business owned by a wealthy matriarch in California.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
The pic has Lange playing the emotionally troubled and addiction-plagued matriarch Mary Tyrone.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of matriarch

Noun

By remaining involved in the businesses their ancestors began, these families have preserved and expanded their wealth across multiple generations while also shaping the American business landscape.

— Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2026
John Spencer, at the time heir to the Spencer earldom and styled as Viscount Althorp, was two years older than Queen Elizabeth II and descended from a long line of ancestors who served the British crown.

— Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026

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