forebear

forebear

1. esivanhempi, esi-isä, esiäiti

Synonyymisanakirja

forebear

esi-isä, esiäiti, asendentti, askendentti, kantaisä, isovanhempi, isoisovanhemmat.

Rimmaavat sanat

forebear rimmaa näiden kanssa:

maar, cheddar, udar, agar, agar-agar, askar, mar, huhmar, piennar, ojanpiennar...

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Englannin sanakirja

forebear englanniksi

1. An ancestor.

2. 1906 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.

Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold ...

3. 1936 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Eiji-EnuhXUC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&sig=aB2VV0fcWv6lkQPQatQQbDhlm_8

One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

4. 1997, H. L. Hix, Understanding W. S. Merwin http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=8JIveUt8StQC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&sig=_AETFoZUYlti38_Va0zOHD4yZTk

Beginning with the bald declaration “I think I was cold in the womb,” the speaker in “The Forbears” then decides that his brother (who died soon after birth) must also have been cold in the womb, like his grandfather John and the forbears who antedated John.

5. (quote-magazine)

6. (obsolete spelling of)

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