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adjective • of or derived from a personal or family name noun • a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | ||||||||
| 28% | 6 | Forefather | ||||||
noun • the offspring who came first in the order of birth adjective satellite • first in order of birth | ||||||||
| 28% | 6 | Forefather | ||||||
noun • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) • `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military • the founder of a family • (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization • a person who founds or establishes some institution • the head of an organized crime family verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
Name Derived From Forefather Crossword Clue
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PATRONYMIC which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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PATRONYMIC
Updated: October 13, 2023
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| The Guardian Quick13 Jul 2000 | Across 17 | |
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