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Bearer vs Forebearer - What's the difference?

bearer | forebearer |

As nouns the difference between bearer and forebearer

is that bearer is one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries while forebearer is uncommon variant of forebear.

bearer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
  • * Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
    • Bearers of burdens.
  • * Dryden
    • The bearer of unhappy news.
  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
    • (Milton)
  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    • I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  • (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
    • The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
  • A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    • a good bearer
  • (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  • (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

    • Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----

    forebearer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Uncommon variant of forebear