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forebear

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɔːˌbɛə/Part of speech nounSorted abeeforrStarts with FEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a person from whom you are descended

Word origin

Late 15th century, from fore- + beer (“one who is or exists”, literally “be-er”).

Used in a sentence

  • [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr. Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold […]
  • One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

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