forefather

Their colonies here are predicated on the notion that their forefathers discovered an unpeopled dry wilderness, which they irrigated into their own slice of Eden.

He is truly one of the forefathers of making reggae live in London.

Ancestor, an′ses-tur, n. one from whom a person has descended: a forefather:—fem.

The oldest and best of all Sanskrit dramas, Hanuman-Natak, is ascribed to this talented forefather of ours.

It is your own forefather, MacIan with the broken sword, bleeding without hope at Culloden.

I will not permit you, Captain Roland, to rob me of either forefather, either train of idea.

Forefather's day was observed by the Nashville churches in the theological hall of Fisk University.