Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person from whom one is descended; an ancestor. See Synonyms at ancestor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has existed before another; an ancestor; a forefather.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An ancestor. See forbear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person from whom you are descended
Etymologies
- From fore- + beer (“one who is or exists”). More at beer. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English forbear : fore-, fore- + beer, one who is (from ben, to be; see be). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Woking-based outfit, who have been dubbed the 'British super-team' since reigning world champion Jenson Button joined their ranks alongside his title forebear Lewis Hamilton, became only the second of the 2010 F1 entries to officially launch their new car.”
“Joseph Proudhon, a man ahead of his time, and who would soon become known as a forebear to anarchism.”
“i 'the "killing times," ye ken, preachin' till the puir hill folk, an 'baptizin' their bairns -- he baptized a forebear o 'my ain -- and it would likely be the annivairsary o' the day when he escaped frae the hans o 'the hunters through the "haar," when I chanced to come by here an' saw a bit tent pit up, an 'heard folk carousin' within.”
“It should already be clear that it was Mariana, rather than Suarez, who might be called the forebear of John Locke's theory of popular consent and the continuing superiority of the people to the government.”
“The FCC promises it would 'forebear' any attempt to control content under Title II.”
The Huffington Post: Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?
“But can we really trust the FCC to 'forebear' authority to reach any further than the transport level?”
The Huffington Post: Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?
“West Germanic, in turn, shares a linguistic forebear with two other groups of languages, North and East Germanic.”
“Miliband's forebear, Neil Kinnock, today demanded regulation to enforce "balance" on the press.”
The Guardian: The Murdoch story is not a Berlin Wall moment – just daft hysteria | Simon Jenkins
“I am here because my forebear "got tight with the Prince Regent", he said.”
“The announcement of the Nintendo eShop for 3DS was soon followed by its launch and it's a great deal more solid and reliable than its creaky DSi forebear was.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forebear’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
accept, except, adverse, averse, advice, advise, affect, effect, aisle, isle, all together, altogether and 134 more...
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Tristram Shandy
souse, meet, sententious, propound, boot, casuistry, avoirdupois, akimbo, disport, lenity, succussation, sweetbread and 197 more...
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Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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New GRE Preparation List
All the words which I encounter during my GRE studies. :)
rhetoric, errant, arrant, artless, artful, ephemeral, libel, rhapsody, cloy, conjecture, relegate, aberrant and 927 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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Norman Lewis
All Words
ebullient, eccentric, eclectic, edify, efface, effusion, egalitarian, egocentric, egoist, egregious, elicit, elliptical and 907 more...
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Words to Learn
recrudescent, feckless, incorrigible, turbid, exiguity, fatuous, fatuitous, patent, parry, repose, resurgent, scurvy and 264 more...
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Day 16
exorbitant, exorcise, expatiate, contrived, extenuate, extirpate, extol, extraneous, extricate, facetious, facile, factious and 47 more...
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