Usually means: Ancestors from whom one descends.
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  1. forebears: Merriam-Webster
  2. forebears: Collins English Dictionary
  3. forebears: Vocabulary.com
  4. forebears: Wordnik
  5. forebears: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. forebears: Wiktionary
  7. forebears: Dictionary.com
  8. forebears: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. forebears: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. forebears: Legal dictionary

(Note: See forebear as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (forebear)

noun:  An ancestor.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of forbear. [(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.]
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