grandfather
IPA: grˈændfɑðɝ
noun
- A father of someone's parent.
- (by extension) A male forefather.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
verb
- (transitive) To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
- (transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain discontinued laws or rules for (a thing, person or organization previously affected by them).
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Examples of "grandfather" in Sentences
- She beckoned on the grandfather.
- My grandfather was an agronomist.
- He's the grandfather of the children.
- His grandfather was a wrangler in 1940s.
- He is like the grandfather of the numbers.
- He was the grandfather of ten grandchildren.
- He enters, and commiserates with grandfather.
- The letter contains the will of the grandfather.
- He is the father of three and the grandfather of four.
- It is a journey in the footsteps of the grandfather of the author.
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