FOREMOTHERS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

foremothers

noun

plural of foremother

as in grandmothers

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Noun

In Arabic, tatreez refers to embroidery in general as well as the specific Palestinian form, which is often a social practice taught through generations by grandmothers and mothers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Her mother and grandmothers were weavers, and looms were a staple in the home.

— Lua Vollaard, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026

Definition of grandmothers

Noun

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

Definition of forefathers

Noun

Back home in Wilmington, Cynthia Brown built community the way her forebears had built houses—tirelessly and elegantly in the course of years.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
For anyone wanting to see or experience the sites and vestiges of Miami’s ancient inhabitants, the people known as Tequesta and their even more enigmatic Archaic forebears, there are only a few places to go.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of forebears

Noun

The matriarchs who fed the team.

— Ricardo Adé, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
The road continues from Beersheba to Hebron, home to the Cave of the Patriarchs, purchased by Abraham some 3,800 years ago and traditionally regarded as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026

Definition of matriarchs

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However, when her island's resources are threatened, Moana embraces her ancestors' voyaging heritage and heads out to sea to find Maui, deliver the heart of Te Fiti (which Maui stole back in the day) and save her people.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
The plants and animals Williford’s ancestors held relationships with became strangers.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of ancestors

Noun

College football is nothing without traditions (see above), and ripping Notre Dame-USC from the calendar robs the next generation of fans of both schools from enjoying the game their fathers and grandfathers remember.

— Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 June 2026
One of his great-great-grandfathers, Ned, was enslaved in Texas before being freed on Juneteenth.

— Calista Oetama, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026

Definition of grandfathers

Noun

Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.

— Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Its story of five girls — all navigating preteenagerdom under the stewardship of their tragically well-meaning white dads — stands firmly on its own legs, even staring down some of its progenitors.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026

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