Definition for Forefather:

• A male ancestor.

Synonyms for Forefather:

• n.

  •
  • precede,
  • predecessor,
  • antecedent,
  • kin.
  •ancestor (noun)
  • forerunner,
  • founder.
  •ascendant (noun)
  • father,
  • mother,
  • forbear.
  •father (noun)
  • sire.
  •forebear (noun)
  • fore-bears,
  • fore-bear,
  • fore bear,
  • fore bears.
  •forefather (noun)
  • patriarch,
  • forebearer.
  •grandfather (noun)
  • granddaddy,
  • granddads,
  • pap,
  • grand-dad,
  • grand father,
  • granddad,
  • paternal forebear,
  • gramps,
  • grandpa,
  • grandpas,
  • grandpappies,
  • granddaddies,
  • elder,
  • grandpappy.
  •parentage (noun)
  • seed,
  • Family,
  • birth,
  • bloodline.
  •paternity (noun)
  • maker,
  • author,
  • responsibility,
  • producer,
  • paternity,
  • creator,
  • engenderer,
  • parent.
  •progenitor (noun)
  • originator.
  •sire (noun)
  • lord,
  • pater.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • ancestor,
  • ancestry,
  • ascendant,
  • ascendent,
  • begetter,
  • forebear,
  • forefather,
  • foremother,
  • grandfather,
  • parentage,
  • precursor,
  • primogenitor,
  • progenitor,
  • Antecessor,
  • Foregoer,
  • Procreator,
  • antecessors,
  • founders,
  • origins,
  • primogenitors,
  • begetters,
  • forefathers,
  • Fore-mother,
  • foremothers,
  • procreators,
  • paters.

Antonyms for Forefather:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    stock, successor, lineage, descendant, son, offspring, scion, daughter, heir, inheritor.

Forefather Sentence Examples:

• In fancy's dim corridors I see you stand, away back in the early dawn of our national day, with the tallow candle drooping and dying in its socket, as you waited for the physician to come and announce to you that you were a forefather.

• Surely nobody today seriously thinks the Emperor's forefather came down from the skies?

Hypernym for Forefather:

• n.

  • person
    patriarch.

Hyponym for Forefather:

• n.

  • person
    ascendant, predecessor, ascendent, root, ancestor, antecedent.