forefather
IPA: fˈɔrfɑðɝ
noun
- ancestor
- cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.
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Examples of "forefather" in Sentences
- They are admiring their forefathers.
- Abraham is the forefather of the Israelites.
- I don't want to see the forefather of the survival horror genre.
- Zhong Jie can be considered as the forefather of the Zhong family.
- Dumont is considered to be the forefather of the French Green Party.
- Giotto, the man described as the forefather of the Renaissance movement.
- The birth of the first forefather heralded two thousand years of Godliness.
- The Belgrade Higher School was the forefather of the University of Belgrade.
- 'I am a Sac,' said I; 'my forefather was a Sac; and all the nation call me a Sac.'
- The "forefather" of these boats was Johnny Morris with his Bass Pro Tracker package models.
- I am a "forefather" myself (for I have six children), but I am not the son of a forefather.
- There is mortadella, a sausage known elsewhere as Bologna, the forefather of American baloney.
- As this is our forefather's intent, then we should be able to attain as much artillery as our military.
- Unknown to us, at time we were deliberating over him, the man famously called the forefather of the City Fiction’ had passed on.
- It was such an important amendment to the Constitution that our forefathers saw it's necessity only second to the right of free speech.
- They have a tradition that their forefather was a man of the name of Shayg (شايق), whose four sons gave origin to their principal tribes.
- Take, for example, the fact that while Lovecraft is usually described as a forefather of modern horror fiction, his stories are, to put it bluntly, not very scary.
- Mr Brok, who used to be Mr Wolski's predecessor as the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, was presented as a "forefather" of the Eastern Partnership, as he championed a similar idea three years ago, called the "Neighbourhood Policy Plus" for the same group of countries.
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