foremother's legacy
- noun
- They celebrated their foremother's legacy by retelling old family stories and cooking traditional meals.
Examples
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Her sense of justice is part of her foremother's legacy that guides her decisions.
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The activist was determined to protect the land as a tribute to her foremother's legacy.
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We must honor our foremother's legacy!
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The foremother's legacy is vital to our culture.
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They celebrated their foremother's legacy by retelling old family stories and cooking traditional meals.
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The activist was determined to protect the land as a tribute to her foremother's legacy.
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Her sense of justice is part of her foremother's legacy that guides her decisions.
Synonyms
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Things, traditions and values family members pass down from earlier generations
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
foremother's + legacy
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'foremother's' denotes belonging to a female ancestor and 'legacy' denotes what is passed down, so together they mean the heritage or traditions from a female ancestor. This construction follows a straightforward possessive + noun pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Foremother's legacy comes from the simple image of an older woman passing a small chest, a song, or a recipe down to the next generation. That gift from the foremother is the legacy, so today the phrase means the 'heritage', 'traditions', or 'values' a female ancestor leaves behind.