Crossword-Solution: FOREFATHER 10 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Forefather n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in
any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

We have 20 clues for the answer “FOREFATHER”

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person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group 1 answer
Francis Mulcahy: "What do you shout as a warning in golf?" Radar O'Reilly: "___" 1 answer
primogenitor 3 answers
Grandfather ___ 7 answers
Forebear 15 answers
Progenitor. 16 answers
Patriarch 17 answers
Sire 20 answers
originator 20 answers
Forbear 23 answers
ancestor 33 answers
Parent 34 answers
predecessor 37 answers
Senior 51 answers
Pioneer 55 answers
Precursor. 60 answers
Antecedent. 62 answers
Generator 63 answers
forerunner 69 answers
Father 89 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FOREFATHER (5)

Trina's ancestors on both sides were German-Swiss, and some long-forgotten forefather of the sixteenth century, some worsted-leggined wood-carver of the Tyrol, had handed down the talent of the national industry, to reappear in this strangely distorted guise.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
This feeling was so strong that a hundred years before he mounted the throne, his forefather, Chien Lung, when he had completed his cycle of sixty years as a ruler, vacated in favour of his son lest he should reign longer than his grandfather.
Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1996
Young Hakon so gay, With his ship, is thy prey: His ship, with its gear, Thou hast ta'en; and art here, Thy forefather's land From the earl to demand." Earl Hakon was led up to the king's ship.
Heimskringla Snorri Sturlason 1996
Valiant King Sacripant (as said before) To equip Sir Rodomont himself bestirred, And he and Ferrau had that champion drest In his forefather Nimrod's iron vest; LXX And there had they arrived, where with his spume The horse was making his rich bridle white: I of the good Frontino speak, for whom Rogero urged with yet unfelt despite.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Some have not hesitated to ascribe to our forefather Adam the height of 900 yards and the age of almost a thousand years; but according to Hufeland acute theologians have shown that the chronology of the early ages was not the same as that used in the present day.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

Quotes with FOREFATHER (2)

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.
Leo Tolstoy
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.
Andy Serkis
Where this answer appears

Appears in: NY Sun.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).