We found 26 dictionaries that define the word forebear:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

1. forebear: Merriam-Webster
2. forebear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
3. forebear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4. forebear: Collins English Dictionary
5. forebear: Vocabulary.com
6. forebear: Wordnik
7. forebear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
8. forebear: Wiktionary
9. forebear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
10. forebear (forbear): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
11. forebear: Infoplease Dictionary
12. Forebear, forebear: Dictionary.com
13. forebear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
14. Forebear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
15. forebear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
16. forebear: Rhymezone
17. Forebear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
18. forebear: FreeDictionary.org
19. forebear: Mnemonic Dictionary
20. forebear: TheFreeDictionary.com
21. forebear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

22. forebear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

23. forebear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

24. forebear: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary ( ) ▸ noun:  An ancestor. ▸ verb:  Obsolete spelling of forbear. [(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.] Similar: forbear, refrain, forerunner, antecedent, ancestor, foreganger, forefather, elder, antecursor, progenitour, more... Opposite: descendant, successor, heir Types: ancestor, forefather, progenitor, patriarch, matriarch, more... Adjectives: illustrious, great, literary, direct, spiritual, famous, intellectual, immediate, distant, common, distinguished Colors:     sepia,     ochre,     umber,     sienna,     taupe, more... ▸ Words similar to forebear ▸ Usage examples for forebear ▸ Idioms related to forebear ▸ Wikipedia articles (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing forebear ▸ Words that often appear near forebear ▸ Rhymes of forebear ▸ Invented words related to forebear