forefather

听听怎么读

英 [ˈfɔ:fɑ:ðə(r)]

美 [ˈfɔrfɑðə(r)]

是什么意思

祖先，祖宗；

变形

复数：forefathers

英英释义

forefather[ 'fɔ:,fɑ:ðə ]

n.
- the founder of a family
  "keep the faith of our forefathers"
  同义词：fathersire
- person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group
  "our forefathers brought forth a great nation"

学习怎么用

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

My forefather came to the USA 200 years ago.
我的祖先在两百年前来到美国。
Avenge the slain forefather by vanquishing Major Duke.
报复杀害的祖先主要由击败杜克。

权威例句

Forefather
The forefather (about Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam)
Hippocrates: the forefather of neurology
The Forefather Needs No Fluids: Voodoo Death and Its Simulacra
W.E.B. Du Bois: Intellectual Forefather of Intersectionality?
[Ignaz Semmelweis--forefather of antisepsis (on the 180th anniversary of his birth)].
FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS: The forefather (about Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam)
Professor Antonio Branco Lefèvre: the forefather of child neurology in Brazil
"Have We Found Abraham to Be Our Forefather According to the Flesh?"A Reconsideration of Rom 4:1
New astronomy library in Bologna is named after Guido Horn D'Arturo: a forefather of modern telescopes

同义词

root father

反义词

descendant

f开头的单词