ancestresses

noun

plural of ancestress
as in grandmothers

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  1. grandmothers
  2. ancestors
  3. matriarchs
  4. progenitors
  5. forebears
  6. forefathers
  7. grandfathers
Noun
  • In Arabic, tatreez refers to embroidery in general as well as the specific Palestinian form, which is often a social practice taught through generations by grandmothers and mothers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Her mother and grandmothers were weavers, and looms were a staple in the home.
    — Lua Vollaard, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026
Definition of grandmothers
Noun
  • Kean comes from a long line of public servants, stretching 250 years to the country’s founding when one of his ancestors became New Jersey’s first leader since independence.
    — Mike Catalini, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • The driving force for the tour is the idea that Black Americans and Muslims must unapologetically tell their own story, something their ancestors couldn’t do.
    — Julie Carr Smyth, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Definition of ancestors
Noun
  • The matriarchs who fed the team.
    — Ricardo Adé, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
  • The road continues from Beersheba to Hebron, home to the Cave of the Patriarchs, purchased by Abraham some 3,800 years ago and traditionally regarded as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of matriarchs
Noun
  • Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
  • Its story of five girls — all navigating preteenagerdom under the stewardship of their tragically well-meaning white dads — stands firmly on its own legs, even staring down some of its progenitors.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Definition of progenitors
Noun
  • Back home in Wilmington, Cynthia Brown built community the way her forebears had built houses—tirelessly and elegantly in the course of years.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • For anyone wanting to see or experience the sites and vestiges of Miami’s ancient inhabitants, the people known as Tequesta and their even more enigmatic Archaic forebears, there are only a few places to go.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
Definition of forebears
Noun
  • Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of forefathers
Noun
  • College football is nothing without traditions (see above), and ripping Notre Dame-USC from the calendar robs the next generation of fans of both schools from enjoying the game their fathers and grandfathers remember.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • One of his great-great-grandfathers, Ned, was enslaved in Texas before being freed on Juneteenth.
    — Calista Oetama, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
Definition of grandfathers
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