grandsires

plural of grandsire, archaic

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Noun
  • Forty years after opening, Union Square Cafe is one of the prosperous patriarchs of the New York restaurant world.
    Christine Muhlke, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Popes and Orthodox patriarchs honor him, and Pärt’s music has received the highest levels of recognition, including Grammy Awards.
    Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Captured in the quotidian poetry of the phone call, conversations between grandmothers and granddaughters shed light on intergenerational inheritance and evolution.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In a touch of magical realism, Dolores hears a chorus of voices made up of her deceased female relatives, including her two mothers, aunts, great-aunts and grandmothers, commenting on her decisions.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unable to attend the hearings to hear those words were Joan and Terry, the aging family matriarchs who have never wavered in their support, the cousins said.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton became the go-to actress for family matriarchs and long-suffering wives in the years that followed, with memorable performances in The Other Sister, The Family Stone, and Town & Country.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Grandsires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsires. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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