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forefathersnounpl. of forefather a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descentour forefathers bought this farm, and our family has worked it for three generations ancestors, fathers, forebearers, forebears(also forbears), grandfathers, primogenitors, progenitors antecessors, predecessors(archaic)ancestresses, foremothers, grandmothers, matriarchsgrandsires(archaic), patriarchs, sires(archaic)ancestries, antecedents, roots descendants(also descendents) children, families, issues, lineages, offspring(also offsprings), posterities, progenies, seed(or seeds), stocksdaughters, heirs, inheritors, scions, sons, successors |