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forefathers

NOUN

ancestor

Synonyms

STRONG

antecedent ascendant patriarch precursor predecessor primogenitor progenitor

WEAK

forebearer procreator

Example Sentences

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"But mining will make everything around us dirty. Our forefathers taught us to protect the forest; it is everything to us."

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

“It’s not what our forefathers would have wanted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

“What is he?” murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

He fears having to sell off parts of his family's 700-acre hill farm near Bridgend to afford a future tax bill, saying his forefathers would be "turning in their graves".

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

By about 300,000 years ago, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using fire on a daily basis.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari