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"text": "His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; an only brother at Montauk Point having sickened in the trenches before Santiago.",
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"expansion": "Dutch voorvader (“forefather”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Vorvater"
},
"expansion": "German Vorvater",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forfader",
"t": "forefather"
},
"expansion": "Danish forfader (“forefather”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förfader",
"t": "forefather"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förfader (“forefather”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English forefader, forfader, vorvader, from Old English fōrefæder (“forefather”), but possibly also merged with Old Norse forfaðir. Equivalent to fore- + father. Compare Dutch voorvader (“forefather”), German Vorvater, Vorfahr (“forefather”), Danish forfader (“forefather”), Swedish förfader (“forefather”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forefathers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forefather (plural forefathers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; an only brother at Montauk Point having sickened in the trenches before Santiago.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ancestor"
],
"links": [
[
"Ancestor",
"ancestor"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition."
],
"links": [
[
"Cultural",
"cultural"
],
[
"idea",
"idea"
],
[
"tradition",
"tradition"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "fôʹfäthə",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɔːˌfɑːðə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-forefather.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-forefather.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-forefather.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-forefather.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-forefather.wav.ogg"
},
{
"enpr": "fôrʹfäthər",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɔɹˌfɑːðɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxahayr",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "նախահայր"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "ata-baba"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predci",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "предци"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "předek"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ane"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voorvader"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "prapatro (M)"
},
{
"alt": "M&F",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "praulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "esi-isä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aïeul"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancêtre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorfahre"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "gennḗtōr",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γεννήτωρ"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "propátōr",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "προπάτωρ"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phū́sās",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "φῡ́σᾱς"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ascendente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitore"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zenninsha",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "前任者"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "tipuna tāne"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "tupuna tāne"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "fornfader"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "forme fader"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"english": "old",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "ǣrfæder"
},
{
"code": "otk",
"lang": "Old Turkic",
"roman": "apa",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "𐰯𐰀"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Väavoda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przodek"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenat"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antepassado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prarodítelʹ",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прароди́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "praotéc",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "праоте́ц"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antepasado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ascendiente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predecesor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förfader"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "tumbuna"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "tambaran"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ancestor",
"word": "ata"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "büröletan"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hibüröletan"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predteča",
"sense": "cultural ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предтеча"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cultural ancestor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "praotec"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:Ancestor"
],
"word": "forefather"
}
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