Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The father of one's mother or father.
- noun A forefather; an ancestor.
- transitive verb To exempt (someone or something) from a new regulation that prohibits or restricts something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent: correlative to grandson, granddaughter, and grandchild.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Daddy longlegs .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To retain existing laws or rules only for those people or organisations that were previously affected by them, and apply new laws or rules to the unaffected people or organisations.
- noun A
father of someone’sparent . - noun by extension A male
forefather .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the father of your father or mother
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, whereas the Hebrew phrase for my grandfather' was sav-í grandfather + 1st person singular possessive', in Israeli it is sába shel-ì grandfather of me'.
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In the first book, Three Wishes, Rose, the main character, an orphan who falls into a real-life fairytale when she discovers her grandfather is a wealthy French count, starts a blog, also called Three Wishes, for an English assignment.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The romance of cyberspace 2009
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Thankfully my grandfather is the kind of observant person who notices that sort of thing, had he not, it could have been very bad.
what is your closest call to a bad experience while hunting? 2009
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Thankfully my grandfather is the kind of observant person who notices that sort of thing, had he not, it could have been very bad.
what is your closest call to a bad experience while hunting? 2009
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Trace – I happened to know your grandfather is an expert at his blackberry and he was only foolin with Peter.
I Phone vs Blackberry | South Bay BMW – LA Bimmer Insider 2009
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Your child will grow up to learn his grandfather is the guy who helped orchestrate the torture program in Amercia, destroying American credibility in the process, and who also obtained an apology from a man who he shot in the face.
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One of the few memories I have of my grandfather is his sweet tea recipe: one scoop of powdered tea, one cup of ice, and about twenty cups of sugar, mixed in while drinking.
Grandpa's special pancakes | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Synopsis: A boy goes hunting with his grandfather where he learns the truth about why his grandfather is a war hero.
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I know a little, – just a tiny bit about old china and porcelains, because my grandfather is awfully interested in them and has collected quite a lot.
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Your grandfather is there with many of his friends; some of them became friends of mine.
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A correspondent of the Drawer is involved in domestic perplexities. He writes:
‘I got acquainted with a young widow, who lived with her step-daughter in the same house. I married the widow; my father fell, shortly after it, in love with the step-daughter of my wife, and married her. My wife became the mother-in-law and also the daughter-in-law of my own father; my wife’s step-daughter is my step-mother, and I am the step-father of my mother-in-law. My stepmother, who is the step-daughter of my wife, has a boy: he is naturally my step-brother, because he is the son of my father and of my step-mother; but because he is the son of my wife’s step-daughter so is my wife the grandmother of the little boy, and I am the grandfather of my step-brother. My wife has also a boy: my step-mother is consequently the step-sister of my boy, and is also his grandmother, because he is the child of her step-son; and my father is the brother-in-law of my son, because he has got his step-sister for a wife. I am the brother of my own son, who is the son of my step-mother; I am the brother-in-law of my mother, my wife is the aunt of her own son, my son is the grandson of my father, and I am my own grandfather.’
– Harper’s Magazine, April 1865 (via futilitycloset.com)
May 5, 2010