What is "forebears"

Usage examples of "forebears".

Mars, as we all know, but they belonged mostly to ethnic Russians through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, as your forebears styled time.

I said I was a kind of writer, more of a journalist, and wanted to record this part of the country, for some of my forebears had come from here.

Like his Celtic forebears he venerated words and their power, for filled with a recklessness and gaiety though he was, he was also a man of intellectual vigor.

Whenever he and Stephen had come face to face in the past few years he had denied this statement entirely, but now, as he looked at the young man he was claiming as his son, he acknowledged for the first time a grave doubt, for he could see no trace of himself or his forebears in the ascetic face that was glaring at him.

He assured Ham that all his forebears had been pig-eaters, which was a crowning insult.