Forebears synonyms

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ancestors
The definition of an ancestor is a person or creature from whom one is descended or who lived in the past, or a person who came before.
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parents
A source or cause; an origin:
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progenitors
An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
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forerunners
An ancestor
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forefathers
An ancestor
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predecessors
An ancestor; forefather
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mothers
(Short for) mother of vinegar
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fathers
An adoptive father
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ascendants
An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
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antecedents
Antecedent means a person who was born before you in your family.
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kins (related)
One's relatives or family:
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Find another word for forebears. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for forebears, like: ancestors, parents, progenitors, forerunners, forefathers, predecessors, mothers, fathers, ascendants, antecedents and kins.
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  • Compared to their Victorian forebears, today's local administrations lack the powers to govern in the round.

  • One of the achievements of our spiritual forebears was to embody love.

  • He was a delicate child, in direct contrast to a strong race of forebears, and inherited from his mother a refined, retiring disposition and a love for books.

  • There is little in the 18th-century that suggests any immediate forebears.

  • He said his own forebears had come from central Europe in a previous wave of immigration, no doubt to escape persecution.

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