foremother
Example Sentences
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Even today, many in the country of 12 million know little about their foremother.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
I also found the reboot too glossy, too chic, and rather boring when compared with its foremother.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020
“She’s a pioneering performance artist and poet, a mystic, a feminist foremother for a whole generation of women artists and writers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
A foremother that modern comedy should have had, Midge is a reverse-engineered ancestor of an Ali Wong or a Tig Notaro.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017
One of their families takes its name from its foremother, the warlock's daughter who was provided with the dogskin mentioned on a previous page.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
