Synonym: ancestor, forebear, predecessor. Antonym: descendant. Similar words: femme fatale, father, grandfather, founding father, therefore, forefront, fat, fate. Meaning: n. 1. the founder of a family 2. person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group.
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1. He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.
2. What would our forefathers have thought?
3. Two hundred years ago our forefathers established this nation.
4. We should not retrace the route our forefathers had taken.
5. They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
6. None of David's forefathers died in World War I.
7. Our printing forefathers were notoriously careless about their pagination.
8. Two hundred years ago our forefathers established a new nation.
9. As Mr Torode points out, our liberal forefathers insisted on the importance of testing faiths by submitting them to discussion.
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10. His forefathers had built the mills, and it hadn't been a particularly easy life.
11. My forefather came to the USA 200 years ago.
12. In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.
13. These are the customs of forefather hand down to us.
14. Your God is one and your forefather ( Adam ) is one.
15. Your first forefather sinned, And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.
16. What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?
17. Like his forefather, Benny had the ability to foresee the future.
18. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
19. All of us bristled at the lawyer's speech insulting our forefathers.
20. For instance, mankind could be replaced by humanity, craftsman by artisan, forefathers by ancestors, spaceman by astronaut and so on.
21. He shudders still with the memory of the loss of his forefathers upon its scorching deserts and forbidding mountain-tops.
22. To Barth, this could only indicate that Bultmann was in effect taking the same path as their nineteenth-century forefathers.
23. We seem to have less of a work ethic than did our forefathers.
24. She heard his cry, perhaps the battle cry of his northern forefathers when they prepared to attack.
25. Freud observed that people tend to puff up the status of their forefathers.
26. In this sense farmers today are in danger of reaping the whirlwind sown by their forefathers.
27. The national anthem continues to glorify the same native land of brave forefathers and heroic exploits.
28. What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefather.
29. We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
30. Let's start with Boaz, from the last paragraph of the book of Ruth, there is a family line that shows Boaz forefather is Perez.
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