foremother
IPA: fˈɔrmʌðɝ
noun
- A female ancestor.
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Examples of "foremother" in Sentences
- Our feminist foremother believed we could have it all.
- The ruff design was a foremother to what we simply know today as ruffles.
- And as the heat of the room ebbed away, he told of her foremother and of his, and of the sturdy Welse who fought the great lone fight, and died, fighting, at Treasure City.
- In "La muerte en el este de Edén/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers.
- In "La muerte en el este de Edén/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers.
- To begin with, it is significant to note that the Bible bestowed on Ruth, the foreign woman, the honor of being the foremother of the most important dynasty of the Jewish people — the house of David, from which the Messiah is to come.
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