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grandfather

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Noun
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grand=fa=ther
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2 in 3 verses (in OT : 2 in 3 verses)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun grandfather has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

grandfathern. 
     A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent.  [1913 Webster]
Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grandfather, n. a male grandparent.

Idiom
grandfather clock a clock in a tall wooden case, driven by weights.
Derivative
grandfatherly adj.

THESAURUS

grandfather

Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, centenarian, dotard, elder, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, grampa, gramps, grandpa, grandsire, graybeard, great-grandfather, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran

ROGET THESAURUS

grandfather

Veteran

N veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr, elders, forefathers, superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.


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