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"FORBEARS" is a plural of: forbear. |
Date "FORBEARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Forbears Ancestors, predecessors - i.e. those born before the present generation. (Anglo-Saxon, fór-béran.) "My name is Græme, so please you, - Roland Græme, whose forbears were designated of Heathergill, in the Debateable Land." - Sir W. Scott: The Abbot, chap. xviii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Paternity | House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FORBEARS |
| English words defined with "FORBEARS": Forbearer, Foregoer. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We are profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievement of our forbears. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FORBEARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "FORBEARS" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FORBEARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | esivanhemmat (ancestors), esi-isät (forefathers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ancêtres (forebears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Vorfahren (ancestors, antecedents, drive forward, drive in front, drive up, forebears, go forward, go on ahead, move along, move forward, move up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | antenati (antecedents, forebears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orbearsfay strãmoş (ancestor, father, forbear, forefather, forefathers, grandsire, great grandfather, patriarch, predecessor, primogenitor, progenitor). (various references) antees (forebears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FORBEARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Forbert, forebare, forteans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arbores, forbear. | |
-2 letters: arbors, barres, borers, farers, rebars, resorb, soarer. | |
-3 letters: afore, arbor, arose, barer, bares, barfs, barre, baser, bears, boars, boras, borer, bores, braes, brose, farer, fares, faros, fears, forbs, fores, froes, frore, rares, raser, rears, rebar, roars, robes, saber, sabre, safer, sober, sofar, sorer. | |
-4 letters: abos, aero, arbs, ares, arfs, arse, bare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: forebears. | |
+2 letters: ferryboats, forbearers, forebrains, freeboards. | |
+3 letters: breakfronts, fiberboards, fibreboards, surfboarded, surfboarder. | |
+4 letters: fingerboards, forbearances, surfboarders. | |
+5 letters: carboniferous, flutterboards, neurofibromas, transformable. | |
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