Vorfahre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- forefather noun A member of your family who lived a long time before you.
- forerunner noun A person who runs at the head of a group, ahead of the others.
- progenitor noun A direct ancestor of a person, such as a parent or grandparent.
Senses
Vorfahre is used for these senses in English:
- forebear An ancestor.
- forerunner A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- progenitor A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- progenitor A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- progenitor (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
forefather — full definition
- noun A member of your family who lived a long time before you.
- noun A person seen as the founder of an idea, tradition, or movement.
forerunner — full definition
- noun A person who runs at the head of a group, ahead of the others.
- noun Someone who is not taking part in a race but goes round the course first, to lead the way or check it is ready.
- noun Something that comes before an event and hints at what is about to happen.
- noun An earlier member of a family or group who came before the current ones.
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