Definition of forebear?

Question

I need a longer definition, All i am finding is short ones that don't describe anything and don't make a lot of sense.

thanks for the jokes

In this language book they weren't using it clearly, it's forebear(s) and i didn't understand it, and i kept looking it up and all it said was ancestor. i thought it maybe was talking about something else but thank you all:-)

Answer 1

Forebear refers to one's ancestors.

Forbear (the word with only one "e") means to patiently restrain yourself from doing or using something; to deny an impulse.

Forbearance is patience; self control.

Answer 2

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

forbear (v.), forebear (n.)


Forbear, stressed on the second syllable, means “to refrain or stop doing something,” “to hold back,” “to abstain,” as in If you’ll forbear commenting, I’ll be grateful. Forebear (like its infrequent variant spelling forbear) is a noun, stressed on the first syllable and meaning “ancestor,” as in My forebears lived in Scandinavia. 1


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press.

Answer 3

ok exactly which part of

" A forebear is an ANCESTOR"

don't you understand?

Answer 4

A person from whom one is descended; an ancestor.

Answer 5

Your grandparents, great-grandparents. 25 X great-grandparents. All of your relatives who lived before you did.

Your ancestors

Answer 6

an ancestor

Answer 7

It can also be spelled forbear. It means to refrain or hold back.

Answer 8

Here are some different meanings...

http://www.selfknowledge.com/37265.htm

Answer 9

the lead bear in a line

Answer 10

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=forbear

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=forbear