Forebear

//ˈfɔːˌbɛə//

Synonyms for "forebear" (36 found)

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Noun(1 words)
antecedent

Strong matches (10)

Noun(2 words)
forbearforeparent

Related words (18)

Noun(1 words)
patriarch

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29 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • предшественик noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Catalan

3 entries
  • antecessor noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • ascendent noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • avantpassat noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 祖先 noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • 祖宗 noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Dutch

1 entries
  • voorvader noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

French

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  • ancêtre noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

German

3 entries
  • Ahn noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • Vorfahr noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • Vorfahre noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Hindi

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  • पूर्वज noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Italian

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  • antenato noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Māori

4 entries
  • kauheke noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • kauwheke noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • tauheke noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • tipuna (plural is tīpuna) noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Plautdietsch

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  • Väavoda noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Portuguese

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  • antepassado noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Russian

2 entries
  • пре́док noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • предше́ственник noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Spanish

2 entries
  • ancestro noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • antepasado noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Sranan Tongo

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  • awo noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Swedish

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  • förfader noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • пре́док noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

Welsh

2 entries
  • cyndad noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
  • hynafiad noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)

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One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.

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[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 […]

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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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THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.

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