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单词 forebear
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forebearn.

Brit. /ˈfɔːbɛː/, /fəˈbɛː/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌbɛ(ə)r/, Scottish English /ˈfɔrber/, /fɔrˈber/
Forms: 1500s foirbear, 1500s–1600s for(e)beer, (1500s forebeerar), Middle English– forbear, 1500s– forebear.
Etymology: < for- prefix2 or fore- prefix + beer n.2, lit. one who is or exists before.
(Originally Scottish)
An ancestor, forefather, progenitor (usually more remote than a grandfather).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun]
elder-fathereOE
fatherOE
elder971
alderOE
eldfatherOE
forme-fadera1200
ancestorc1300
grandsirec1300
aiela1325
belsirea1325
predecessora1325
forefather1377
morea1382
progenitorc1384
antecessorc1400
forn-fatherc1460
forebear1488
ancient1540
antecestrec1550
fore-grandsirec1550
grandfather1575
ascendant1604
forerunnera1616
ancienter1654
tupuna1845
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 21 His forbearis..Of hale lynage and trew lyne of Scotland.
1578–1600 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 159 For in this seiknes I was borne And my forebeerars me beforne.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. ⁋17 Looke back a little to this outworne dialect of our forebeers.
1786 R. Burns Poems 64 So may they [sc. sheep] like their great forbears, For monie a year come thro, the sheers.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 223 This Roland Cheyne..was my forbear.
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts I. 53 A yeoman whose forbears had once owned the land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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