Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The male grandparent of an animal, especially a domesticated animal such as a horse.
- noun A grandfather.
- noun A male ancestor; a forefather.
- noun An old man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grandfather: used for both men and animals, and now especially in the pedigrees of horses.
- noun By extension, any lineal male ancestor preceding a father.
- noun In change-ringing: One of the methods of ringing the changes on a peal of bells: supposed to be of very early origin.
- noun See
double , n., .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
grandfather
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Examples
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Your grandsire was a chauffeur, a servant, and without education.
Page 7 2010
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A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made a much better gentleman of Georgy than any plans of his grandfather could make him.
Vanity Fair 2006
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I remember her telling me that the magic ran in her family, but deep; her grandsire was a Master, but not her father.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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"Yudhishthira said," Tell me of that, O grandsire, which is the root of all duties, which is the root of kinsmen, of home, of the Pitris and of guests.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Your grandsire was a chauffeur, a servant, and without education.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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Oh, Monsieur le Chevalier, having an income, need not be paid moneys; because Monsieur le Chevalier was born in the saddle, his father is an eagle, his grandsire was a centaur.
The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901
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One day when my grandsire was a young lad he was playing with some other children on the pastures near the shore, when all of a sudden what should they see among their own cows but a fine young dun-colored heifer without any horns.
The Scotch Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901
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Your grandsire was a chauffeur, a servant, and without education.
The Scarlet Plague Jack London 1896
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Now this my grandsire was a man whose word was law and every day he held a Divan wherein the traders craved his counsel about taking and giving and selling and buying; and this endured until what while a sickness attacked him and he sensed his end drawing near.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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My grandsire was a particularly holy man; and I have heard my father say, that one night an archbishop came to his house secretly, merely to have the satisfaction of kissing his head.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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