grandfather
grandfather is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abba
- ancestor
- ancestral
- ancestry
- birth
- centenarian
- clan
- consanguinity
- crone
- dad
- dam
- descent
- dotard
- extraction
- family
- father
- fatherhood
- fathership
- gaffer
- gammer
- genealogy
- genitor
- grandam
- grandmother
- grandsire
- graybeard
- great
- happy
- house
- line
- lineage
- linear
- mamma
- man
- maternal
- maternity
- mother
- motherhood
- non
- nonagenarian
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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