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GRANDFATHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The father of your father or mother
Synonyms:
gramps; grandad; granddad; granddaddy; grandfather; grandpa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grandfather" is a kind of...):
grandparent (a parent of your father or mother)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb grandfather
Context examples:
It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty’s grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This Braithwaite Lowrey—I knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"Laurie, when are you going to your grandfather?" she asked presently, as she settled herself on a rustic seat.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with his band when he saw Quelala walking beside the river.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Grey as he was—and a great-grandfather into the bargain, for he said so—I was madly jealous of him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been to Eton and Oxford.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
First, as being the means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction, and raising men to honours which their fathers and grandfathers never dreamt of; and secondly, as it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly; a sailor grows old sooner than any other man.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But that was what we thought of it in the days of your grandfathers, and that is why you might find statesmen and philanthropists like Windham, Fox, and Althorp at the side of the Ring.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He told, too, how he had heard from his grandfather that many, many princes had come, and had tried to break through the thicket, but that they had all stuck fast in it, and died.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
For, as to that infamous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to observe, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
