: ancestor, forefather also : precursor —usually used in plural His forebears fought in the American Civil War.
What is forebear remote?
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
How do you use forebear in a sentence?
a person from whom you are descended.
- I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
- His realism was not the realism of his forebears.
- One of his forebears could have won the support of Wilfrid.
- Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life.
