foreparent
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈfɔrˌpɛrənt/
- Studying the history of our foreparents helps us understand our identity.
Examples
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The traditions we celebrate today are deeply rooted in the customs of our foreparents.
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The idea that banks thought in terms of anything but accounts and their activities belongs to the generation of our foreparents.
Fiction book (2002) -
This is, for the most part, punishment for our foreparents and ourselves being disobedient to the creator.
Blog text (17) -
I can't find myself to entertain the thought of being with a white man intimately because of what their people did to my foreparents (slavery, lynching, rape, etc.).
Blog text (3) -
My foreparents migrated to America in search of a better life.
Synonyms
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2.4
A person in your family who lived long ago before your grandparents
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5.1
A person from older generations who helped start your family or its traditions
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8.1
A person in your family who lived long ago
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8.2
An early ancestor who starts a family line or idea
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8.4
A woman from an earlier generation who starts a family or tradition
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8.6
A person in your family from past generations
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7.9
A person in your family who lived many generations before you
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7.4
A person in your family who lived before you, like a great-grandparent
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8.4
A woman in your family who lived many generations ago
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9.9
An early relative in the direct family line, like a great-grandparent
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7.7
A shared ancestor that more than one species or group comes from
A person in your family from an earlier time, for example a parent
A woman who starts a family line
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Etymology
The word foreparent comes from the parts fore- meaning 'before' and parent meaning 'mother or father', like in forefather. So a foreparent is an earlier parent in your family line — an ancestor who lived before you.