Synonyms of forebearer

forebearer

noun

ˈfȯr-ˌber-ər 

as in ancestor

a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent

villagers who still practice many of the customs of their forebearers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestor
• grandfather
• father
• forefather
• progenitor
• forebear
• primogenitor
• grandmother
• predecessor
• patriarch
• ancestry
• matriarch
• antecessor
• foremother
• ancestress
• grandsire
• antecedents
• sire
• roots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• descendant
• family
• children
• offspring
• lineage
• issue
• progeny
• stock
• seed
• son
• successor
• daughter
• posterity
• heir
• inheritor
• scion

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of forebearer

Mike Brown said the digital driver license is the forebearer of discriminating against the unvaccinated. — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022

If successful, The Mayflower Autonomous Ship, named in honor of its famous nautical forebearer and known as MAS for short, will be the first such trans-Atlantic voyage by an autonomous vessel. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2021

Quaker Oats retired Aunt Jemima, allowing her real-life forebearer, Nancy Green, to step out of the shadows of a minstrel past. — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020

Chickamauga is two lakes upstream from Guntersville and other TVA lakes in Alabama, which likely means the fish or their forebearers passed through Alabama waters and that lots of them could still be there. — Frank Sargeant, al, 22 Jan. 2020

Our generation inherited a healthy ocean from our forebearers. — CNN, 24 Sep. 2019