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Definition of forefather

the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"
person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group; "our forefathers brought forth a great nation"

Similar Words: father, sire

Hyponyms: patriarch

Derivational Morphology: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

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