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forebears

NOUN

antecedent(s)

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ancestor ancestry antecessor blood descent extraction forefather foremother genealogy line primogenitor progenitor stock

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descendant

NOUN

birth

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ancestry background blood breeding derivation descent extraction genealogy legacy line lineage parentage pedigree position race rank station status stock strain

WEAK

heritance

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conclusion death end ending finish

NOUN

family

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clan folk group house household people tribe

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ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children class descendants descent dynasty extraction genealogy generations genre in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree progenitors progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system

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heirs and assigns kith and kin menage ménage

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parent

NOUN

lineage

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clan descent genealogy origin pedigree

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birth blood breed descendants extraction family folk heredity house kin kindred line offspring progenitors progeny race stock succession tribe

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stirps

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parent

NOUN

menage

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ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children clan class descendants descent dynasty extraction folk genealogy generations genre group house household in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree people progenitors progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system tribe

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heirs and assigns kith and kin ménage

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parent

NOUN

stock

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background breed clan descent extraction family folk house kin kindred line lineage parentage pedigree race species strain tribe type variety

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line of descent

Antonyms

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fact truth

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This generation of ETFs isn’t just more expensive and risky than its forebears.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

She also started incorporating images of other inspiring women, including her maternal forebears and the Cuban American sculptor Ana Mendieta.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

In addition to her many forebears, the Bride has many successors and imitators in Hollywood movies, but seldom do any of these quippy, blasé screen idols exhibit one-tenth of her grit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Part of it may be a simple reluctance to credit that the culture of liberty held so essential to the identity of the United States could have so many different forebears.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

forebears

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