Usually means: Ancestor from earlier generations, predecessor.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word forefather:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. forefather: Merriam-Webster
  2. forefather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forefather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forefather: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forefather: Vocabulary.com
  6. forefather: Wordnik
  7. forefather: Wiktionary
  8. forefather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. forefather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. forefather: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Forefather, forefather: Dictionary.com
  12. Forefather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Forefather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. forefather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. forefather: Rhymezone
  16. Forefather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. forefather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. forefather: FreeDictionary.org
  19. forefather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. forefather: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. forefather: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. forefather: Legal dictionary

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  1. forefather: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forefather)

▸ noun:  An ancestor.
▸ noun:  A cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.

Similar:
father, sire, progenitor, ancestor, forthfather, grandfather, forebearer, auncestor, foreparent, grandancestor, more...

Opposite:
descendant, offspring, posterity

Types:
ancestor, progenitor, patriarch, predecessor, more...

Phrases:
being a forefather to, more...

Adjectives:
great, first, common, spiritual, own, rude, literary, intellectual, divine, ancient, mythical

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Similar:
father, sire, progenitor, ancestor, forthfather, grandfather, forebearer, auncestor, foreparent, grandancestor, more...

Opposite:
descendant, offspring, posterity

Types:
ancestor, progenitor, patriarch, predecessor, more...

Phrases:
being a forefather to, more...

Adjectives:
great, first, common, spiritual, own, rude, literary, intellectual, divine, ancient, mythical



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