Word Meanings - FOREBEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ancestor. See Forbear.

Related words: (words related to FOREBEAR)

• FORBEARER
  One who forbears. Tusser.
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• FORBEAR
  An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. "Your forbears of old." Sir W. Scott.
• ANCESTORIAL
  Ancestral. Grote.
• FORBEARANT
  Forbearing. Carlyle.
• FORBEARANCE
  The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton. 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Have a continent forbearance,
• FORBEARING
  Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.
• ANCESTOR
  An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (more info) first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancêtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L.