Synonyms of the word

forefather

• n. Ancestor.^Wp.
• n. Cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.

ancestor

• n. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time;…
• n. An earlier type; a progenitor.
• n. (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
• n. (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.

antecedent

• adj. Earlier, either in time or order.
• adj. presumptive.
• n. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
• n. An ancestor.
• n. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
• n. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
• n. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated…
• n. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.

ascendant

• adj. Rising, moving upward.
• adj. Surpassing or controlling.
• n. Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
• n. An ancestor (antonym of descendant).
• n. Ascent; height; elevation.
• n. (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment…

ascendent

• adj. Upward in direction or proclivity.
• adj. In power; controlling.
• n. A person from whom one is descended.
• n. A position of power or control.

father

• n. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
• n. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
• n. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
• n. A term of respectful address for a priest.
• n. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
• n. The founder of a discipline or science.
• n. A senator of Ancient Rome.
• v. To be a father to; to sire.
• v. (figuratively) To give rise to.
• v. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
• v. To provide with a father.
• v. To adopt as one's own.

predecessor

• n. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another…
• n. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier,…
• n. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

sire

• n. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders…
• n. A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
• n. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
• n. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
• v. (transitive, of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate.