Term: forefather: the founder of a family
Candidate hypernym: ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) → 1
Candidate hypernym: seat: furniture that is designed for sitting on → 0
Candidate hypernym: shingler: a worker who shingles roofs → 0
Candidate hypernym: explosive unit: any unit for measuring the force of explosions → 0
Candidate hypernym: fetus: an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal → 0
Candidate hypernym: hemorrhagic cyst: a cyst containing blood → 0
Candidate hypernym: ship money: an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense → 0
Candidate hypernym: mystification: something designed to mystify or bewilder → 0
Candidate hypernym: escarpment: a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification → 0
Candidate hypernym: sentence stress: the distribution of stresses within a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: activator: (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription → 0