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Meaning of "forefatherly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOREFATHERLY

forefatherly  [ˈfɔːˌfɑːðəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOREFATHERLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Forefatherly is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FOREFATHERLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of forefatherly in the English dictionary

The definition of forefatherly in the dictionary is of or relating to ancestors or forefathers.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOREFATHERLY


brotherly
ˈbrʌðəlɪ
fatherly
ˈfɑːðəlɪ
grandfatherly
ˈɡrænˌfɑːðəlɪ
grandmotherly
ˈɡrænˌmʌðəlɪ
litherly
ˈlɪðəlɪ
motherly
ˈmʌðəlɪ
northerly
ˈnɔːðəlɪ
southerly
ˈsʌðəlɪ
stepmotherly
ˈstɛpˌmʌðəlɪ
unbrotherly
ʌnˈbrʌðəlɪ
unfatherly
ʌnˈfɑːðəlɪ
unmotherly
ʌnˈmʌðəlɪ
weatherly
ˈwɛðəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOREFATHERLY

foredamned
foredate
foredeck
foredid
foredo
foredone
foredoom
foredoomed
foreface
forefather
forefeel
forefeelingly
forefeet
forefend
forefinger
forefoot
forefront
foregather
foregleam
forego

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOREFATHERLY

bitterly
butcherly
cleverly
disorderly
eagerly
easterly
elderly
ferly
formerly
gingerly
improperly
orderly
overly
painterly
properly
quarterly
teacherly
tenderly
utterly
westerly

Synonyms and antonyms of forefatherly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «forefatherly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOREFATHERLY

Find out the translation of forefatherly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of forefatherly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «forefatherly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

forefatherly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

forefatherly
570 millions of speakers

English

forefatherly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

forefatherly
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

forefatherly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

forefatherly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

forefatherly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

forefatherly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

forefatherly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Secara perseorangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

forefatherly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

forefatherly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

forefatherly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Forefatherly
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

forefatherly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

forefatherly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वजांच्या दृष्टीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

forefatherly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

forefatherly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

forefatherly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

forefatherly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forefatherly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

forefatherly
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

forefatherly
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

forefatherly
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

forefatherly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of forefatherly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREFATHERLY»

The term «forefatherly» is used very little and occupies the 166.155 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREFATHERLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about forefatherly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOREFATHERLY»

Discover the use of forefatherly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to forefatherly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science
it alldepends on how slavishthe community istowards forefatherly practice. In each case, however, or so it seemstome,how the community goes dictates whattheir terms refer to. If this isright, thenacommunity could havean implicit setof  ...
Jody Azzouni, 2013
2
To Do or Not to Do
have to cast out the demons first and get them away from faith in the forefatherly spirits. Having grown up with these people, I knew that I had an enormous task learning to deal withthem andI had learned a lot from evangelistToosen,who ...
Cobus van der Merwe
3
The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story. With an ...
... from the pictures of our human blood in motion as from the clever assortment of our forefatherly heaps of bones. Shun those who cry out against fiction and have no taste for elegant writing. For to have no sympathy with the playful mind is not ...
George Meredith, 1892
4
The Forum
pays, and pays handsomely, as Jonathan himself could tell you. But the forefatherly advice Jonathan commits to memory, to patriotism, and to his children . The world has changed wonderfully since it was delivered, and the fortunes of ...
5
The Lady's Lecture, a Theatrical Dialogue, Between Sir ...
M I S S. l s I doubt that's an ensnaring (Defi'iom Papa; for perhaps mine would be but a forefatherly vway of Thinking: But if I were left 'to my Choice, I- would rather pass my time with a plain Man of good Sense and good Nature, than the ...
Colley Cibber, 1748
6
The Lost Worlds of Rhodes: Greeks, Italians, Jews and Turks ...
3 Often the persons concerned were mere children at the time, but everything would be done to comply with the forefatherly whim when time arrived. This, reports Galante, resulted in many mismatches. Until the 1920s few Sephardi, Greek ...
Nathan Shachar, 2013
7
The Living Age
... that any one ignorant of German would sooner un- 1 dertake to translate a page of German with the help of a dictionary than to per- 1 form the same feat, with similar help, on a | page of such abstruse Englisc, forefatherly and foremotherly as ...
8
The Contemporary Review
... ignorant of German would sooner undertake to translate a page of German with the help of a dictionary than to perform the same feat, with similar help, on a page of such abstruse Englisc, forefatherly and foremotherly as we are assured it is.
9
The Works of George Meredith
... from light literature as from heavy—as much, that is, from the pictures of our human blood in motion as from the clever assortment of our forefatherly heaps of bones. Shun those who cry out against fiction and have no taste for elegant writing.
George Meredith, 1910
10
The Homes of America
It is separated from the parlor by an immense forefatherly chimney. The original fireplace has disappeared in favor of a patent fire-frame, where curling flames dance merrily in chilly weather ; but the Dutch tiles, with their Scriptural references, ...
Martha Joanna Lamb, 1879

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Forefatherly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/forefatherly>. May 2024 ».
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