Forebearer
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A forebear. rare
Etymology
Perhaps from the presumption that "forebear" was supposed to be fore- + bear ("to give birth to"), or simply an older dialectal variation.
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