GRANDFATHER Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

grandfather

noun

ˈgran(d)-ˌfä-t͟hər

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 His grandfather was the mayor, so politics were always part of Johnson’s upbringing. —

Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026 My family started Susquehanna Glass in 1910 when my grandfather installed a cutting machine in a shed behind his house. —

Walter Rowen, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026 Matsumoto’s grandfather was hired by one of these companies to work in the shipping department. —

Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026 Honoring her great-grandfather Cole Grove with the canary metaphor of the former, both songs celebrate personal salvation. —

Holly Gleason, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grandfather

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Noun

Neither could Kendall, who had spent happy teenage years there with his father, stepmother, and brothers—and was still launching his boat from a dock on the property to work his oyster beds.

— Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
Augustine, a bishop in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, is the spiritual father of the Augustinian order of which the pontiff is a member and former leader.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026