as in father
a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent
this tradition has been passed down from our pioneer grandfathers
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Recent Examples of grandfather
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children originally took the Mountbatten-Windsor name before becoming prince and princess when Elizabeth died and their grandfather, King Charles III, became Monarch.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
An 83-year-old grandfather was stabbed to death by a nanny who was babysitting his 3-year-old granddaughter, Michigan authorities say.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s a brief historical flashback in which Frank’s face is transposed onto Arthur’s memory of his own grandfather’s murder by Nate Washberg.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Singer-songwriter Jake Owen got some great advice from his 103-year-old grandfather.
—Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
An 83-year-old grandfather was stabbed to death by a nanny who was babysitting his 3-year-old granddaughter, Michigan authorities say.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s a brief historical flashback in which Frank’s face is transposed onto Arthur’s memory of his own grandfather’s murder by Nate Washberg.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Singer-songwriter Jake Owen got some great advice from his 103-year-old grandfather.
—Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather
Noun
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After the death of his addict father, Ethan heads back to see if there’s any money to be made from selling his home, intending to stay, only briefly, with his aunt Sarah, Metcalf’s character, a Brunhilde of the high prairie.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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When Aileen was 20 years old, the same year her father died, her older brother died of cancer, per Britannica.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The ancestors were taken from the Riverside Cemetery site near the Menominee River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between 1961 and 1963 during a joint excavation led by anthropologists Robert Retzenthaler for the Milwaukee Public Museum and Robert Hrushka for the Oshkosh Public Museum.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, the analyses consistently position the new species as an ancestor of the entire dyrosaurid group.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Grandfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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