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Definition of foremother in English: foremothernoun ˈfɔːmʌðəˈfôrˌməT͟Hər usually one's foremothersA female ancestor or precursor of something. 女祖先,女祖宗 Example sentencesExamples - Certainly books about books do take us back to our literary forefathers and foremothers and back into the often distant historical past.
- It must be an absolute tragedy for people to know that the language of their forefathers and foremothers would possibly be lost.
- Our forefathers and foremothers were human, made of flesh and blood.
- Intercontinental travel and trade, and the mixing of cultures and populations are as old as humankind; after all, the foremothers and forefathers of everyone of us walked originally out of Africa.
- We find ample evidence whether in lyric fragments or a recipe to marvel at the capacity of our foremothers and forefathers to pray and hope and work for a better day.
- I'm not a believer, but Yiddish is the means for my connecting to my culture, to my heritage, to my forefathers and foremothers.
- My ancestors were systematically stolen and enslaved by white forefathers and foremothers - a legacy that, no matter how much we want to disregard it, is still reaping a stunted harvest.
- As we celebrate this Trinity Sunday, remember not only those who gave their life's blood in the struggle at Normandy, but also give thanks for the faith of our forefathers and foremothers who staked their lives upon their faith in God.
- He goes on to chronicle the genius of ‘black foremothers and forefathers’ in creating ‘powerful buffers to ward off the nihilistic threat.’
- Since July 4, 1776, thanks to the victories and struggles of our forefathers and foremothers, America has flourished as an expanding democracy.
- It's been passed on and passed on by our forefathers and foremothers throughout time.
- With scraps and fabric recycling, you can be creative and frugal and all those things our foremothers and forefathers were when they were sewing at home.
- The souls of each of the forefathers and foremothers plead to God to spare the Jews from permanent exile.
- Our forefathers and foremothers in 1951 were concerned with the way medical practice relates to changing times, a theme that sounds familiar today.
- She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
- Her life came full circle when she was in her late 80s and the women's movement rediscovered her as a foremother.
- The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers.
- Let me envision my foremother as a lusty woman so enchanted with the piercing blue eyes and bright hair of the muscular Vikings that she offered herself for a night, or many nights, of passion with one or more.
- The Fourth of July was the time to commemorate the forefathers and foremothers who started it all.
- Intellectually, Paul is also an important foremother to modern feminist thought.
Definition of foremother in US English: foremothernounˈfôrˌməT͟Hər usually one's foremothersA female ancestor or precursor of something. 女祖先,女祖宗 Example sentencesExamples - I'm not a believer, but Yiddish is the means for my connecting to my culture, to my heritage, to my forefathers and foremothers.
- Our forefathers and foremothers in 1951 were concerned with the way medical practice relates to changing times, a theme that sounds familiar today.
- He goes on to chronicle the genius of ‘black foremothers and forefathers’ in creating ‘powerful buffers to ward off the nihilistic threat.’
- My ancestors were systematically stolen and enslaved by white forefathers and foremothers - a legacy that, no matter how much we want to disregard it, is still reaping a stunted harvest.
- Intercontinental travel and trade, and the mixing of cultures and populations are as old as humankind; after all, the foremothers and forefathers of everyone of us walked originally out of Africa.
- With scraps and fabric recycling, you can be creative and frugal and all those things our foremothers and forefathers were when they were sewing at home.
- We find ample evidence whether in lyric fragments or a recipe to marvel at the capacity of our foremothers and forefathers to pray and hope and work for a better day.
- The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers.
- Certainly books about books do take us back to our literary forefathers and foremothers and back into the often distant historical past.
- She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
- Let me envision my foremother as a lusty woman so enchanted with the piercing blue eyes and bright hair of the muscular Vikings that she offered herself for a night, or many nights, of passion with one or more.
- Her life came full circle when she was in her late 80s and the women's movement rediscovered her as a foremother.
- It must be an absolute tragedy for people to know that the language of their forefathers and foremothers would possibly be lost.
- The Fourth of July was the time to commemorate the forefathers and foremothers who started it all.
- As we celebrate this Trinity Sunday, remember not only those who gave their life's blood in the struggle at Normandy, but also give thanks for the faith of our forefathers and foremothers who staked their lives upon their faith in God.
- It's been passed on and passed on by our forefathers and foremothers throughout time.
- Our forefathers and foremothers were human, made of flesh and blood.
- The souls of each of the forefathers and foremothers plead to God to spare the Jews from permanent exile.
- Intellectually, Paul is also an important foremother to modern feminist thought.
- Since July 4, 1776, thanks to the victories and struggles of our forefathers and foremothers, America has flourished as an expanding democracy.
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