/?f?r?fɑe·?rz,?fo?r-/membersof afamily,national, orreligiousgroupwholivedin the past:Mario isspendingthesummerin Italy, thelandof his forefathers.(Definition offorefathersfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofforefathers
forefathersThe custom of praying for one's dead parents (as well asforefathers) was also pervasive in all the three cultures.From theCambridge English CorpusThe boasts are carried in the language offorefathers: they "liefer had died" than contemplate betrayal and change.From theCambridge English CorpusA way which, if they could hear it, would make ourforefatherssit bolt upright in their graves.From theCambridge English CorpusThe first is in its recidivism, which allows no space for the failures of hisforefathers.From theCambridge English CorpusThe musics in which they participate may have been performed by their foremothers andforefathers.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, democratic accountability does not always work asforefathersenvisioned.From theCambridge English CorpusYet, the same persons did not grant any importance to the name change theirforefathersundertook some decades or centuries ago.From theCambridge English CorpusThe committee concluded that the ground in which one'sforefathersrested should be treated with reverence by the living generation.From theCambridge English CorpusIn addition to these, he told me, he also uses the ' ancient wisdom of ourforefathers', including charms, incantations and others (interview, 8.7.2004).From theCambridge English CorpusSimilarly, within these ritualized events, the composers whose works are being performed are frequently taken as something akin to mythicalforefathers.From theCambridge English CorpusThe migration of theforefathersis thus always present in the collective memory.From theCambridge English CorpusOurforefatherssang it the whole year round; they lived with their songs.From theCambridge English CorpusWhy should these people be uprooted from their homes and the valleys which have been their homes and the homes of theirforefathersfor generations?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It is what ourforefathersthought was a remedy for the mischief.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These people are understandably anxious about their future: they are to be absorbed into the very system from which they or theirforefathersfled.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/forefathers##
