PROGENITOR Synonyms

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• a person from whom you are descended

• inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• a worker who makes metal castings

• fail utterly; collapse

• sink below the surface

• break down, literally or metaphorically

• stumble and nearly fall

• someone who creates new things

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

• look after a child until it is an adult

• a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• an ancestor in the direct line