forebear
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noun
Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
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forebear or forbear (ˈfɔːˌbɛə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an ancestor; forefather | |
| forbear or forbear | |
| —n | |
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Forebear
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
Take, for instance, an intellectual forebear of the tire slasher film: killer-car movies.
At a later stage its embryonic gill slits would recall a piscine forebear, a later step in evolution.
Bush is a surprising forebear of the freewheeling netizen.
Two dimly lighted, sparely decorated rooms with enormous ceiling fans and more space than the restaurant's downtown forebear.
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