单词：forebear
音标：['fɒ:bєә] ；
n. 祖先, 祖宗
n. a person from whom you are descended
词型变化：名词复数形式 : forebears
考试类型：[托福/GRE]
考试类型：[托福/GRE]
词性分布：
forebear的用法和样例：
例句
用作名词(n.)
- Our forebear might even teach us a few old tricks that could be used to help the living.祖先甚至可以教我们一些有助于生活的古老窍门。
经典引文
Their forebears had perhaps come on a later wave of European migration.
出自：W. Maxwell
【近义词】
- forefather祖先
- ancestor祖宗
- forerunner先驱
- antecedent前情
- predecessor祖先
- precursor先驱
- grandparent(外)祖父(母)...
- forbear忍耐