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 Frank Gillis was a lineman on Elmer Layden’s final Notre Dame teams in the late 1930s.
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Pete Sampson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The transition comes as the business his grandfather founded builds on decades of growth in the Middle East, which has become a key target region for luxury players given the slowdown in China.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Levy became a grandfather in July 2022 when his daughter Sarah Levy welcomed her son James.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
His grandfather had worked in the trade in Russia before the family migrated, and Yüna eventually began apprenticing with uncles in the Diamond District.
—Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Pete Sampson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The transition comes as the business his grandfather founded builds on decades of growth in the Middle East, which has become a key target region for luxury players given the slowdown in China.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Levy became a grandfather in July 2022 when his daughter Sarah Levy welcomed her son James.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
His grandfather had worked in the trade in Russia before the family migrated, and Yüna eventually began apprenticing with uncles in the Diamond District.
—Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather
Noun
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Celebrating the assassination of a 31 year old father of two young kids is disturbing; that teachers would be among those who do so is completely unacceptable.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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His father, a hard-working Russian immigrant and patriotic US bomber pilot, taught him to respect authority.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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In Rea Rasmussen's case, the process took 18 months and required building genealogical connections back to ancestors born in the 1780s.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Grandfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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