grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændˌfɑːðə/
enpr: grănd′fäthər
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/
ipa: [ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ]
Forms: form: grandfathers
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Grandfather, Father, and Son. The Father diſſeiſeth the Grandfather and dies, the Son endows the Mother, the Grandfather dies, the Son may enter upon the Mother; for he hath a new Right deſcended to him from the Grandfather, for the Grandfather might have entred upon the Mother, ſo ſhall his Heir.
ref: 1662, [Edmund] Plowden, “Entry”, in H. B., transl., Plovvdens Quæries: Or, A Moot-book of Choice Cases, Useful for the Young Students of the Common Law: Englished, Methodized, and Enlarged, London: Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, and Tho[mas] Basset, […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: Lineal conſanguinity is that which ſubſists between perſons, of whom one is deſcended in a direct line from the other: as between John Stiles (the propoſitus in the table of conſanguinity) and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and ſo upwards in the direct aſcending line; or between John Stiles and his ſon, grandſon, great-grandſon, and ſo downwards in the direct deſcending line.
ref: 1766, William Blackstone, “Of Title by Descent”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 203:
text: One circumſtance […] peculiar to the Germanic empire, is the diſtinction between its mediate and immediate members. In the ſame manner as two objects which we may ſuppose to have relation to each other, are immediately related, when there is no third object intervening, but otherwiſe only mediate. This may be illuſtrated by the example of the connexion between a grandfather and his children, who may be ſaid to be mediately related; while the relation between the parents and children, on the contrary, is immediate; […]
ref: 1790 October, “An Historical Developement of the Political Constitution of the Germanic Empire. By J[ohann] S[tephan] Pütter, Privy Counsellor of Justice, &c. Translated from the German, by Josiah Dornford, of Lincoln’s Inn, L.L.D. Vol. II.”, in The Literary Magazine and British Review, volume V, London: Printed for the proprietors and sold by C[hristopher] Forster […], →OCLC, page 290, column 2:
text: My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf.— / So it stood ninety years on the floor; / It was taller by half than the old man himself, / Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. / It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born, / And was always his treasure and pride; / But it stopp’d short—never to go again— / When the old man died.
ref: 1876, Henry C[lay] Work, “Grandfather’s Clock. Song and Chorus”, New York, N.Y.: Published by C. M. Cady, […], →OCLC, page 34:
text: Grandfather was friendly, formal, and strict with the children in his large family, and quite displeased with the lively goings-on of the grandchildren. […] He only joked with me once, when I was four, and never again. Our festive Sunday dinner was crowned by a pudding. Perhaps I looked too greedy—Grandfather threatened to throw the pudding out of the window. It is reported that I answered, "Then I'll jump out of the window and gobble it up all by myself."
ref: 1965 March 25, Richard Willstätter, “My Ancestors”, in Lilli S[chwenk] Hornig, transl., edited by Arthur Stoll, From My Life: The Memoirs of Richard Willstätter: Translated from the German Edition, New York, N.Y.; Amsterdam: W. A. Benjamin, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Those numbers take on added significance when he thinks about his relationship with his grandfather, who just turned 90 this year. […] What happens then is kids are “deprived of grandmothers (maybe increasingly grandfathers, too) who are comfortable in their own skin, aging gracefully and being a good role model to kids, showing that growing old is not the worst thing that can happen to a woman.”
ref: 2015 April 28, Kelly Wallace, “Older parents face ‘grandparent deficit’”, in CNN:
text: Both paternal and maternal grandfathers were highly involved in various facets of adolescents' lives, with maternal grandfathers providing more support in general[…]. It was found that, on average, maternal grandfathers were more involved with adolescent grandchildren than paternal grandfathers. Adolescents also felt closer to maternal grandfathers compared to paternal grandfathers. This may be explained by the more regular contact and closer geographical distance between these grandfathers and adolescents.
ref: 2016, Jo-Pei Tan, Ann Buchanan, “Links between Grandfather Involvement and Adolescent Well-being in England and Wales”, in Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch, editors, Grandfathers: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life), London: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part IV (Impact on Grandfathers), page 233:
text: “These baseless allegations place blame where it does not belong for a complex public health crisis, and we deny them. The company our fathers and grandfathers founded manufactures an FDA-approved medicine that has always represented a tiny portion of the opioid market – never more than four percent of nationwide opioid prescriptions and currently less than two percent – while providing life-changing relief for the millions of pain patients who need it.
ref: 2019 March 24, Ralph Ellis and Melanie Schuman, “Hundreds of cities, counties and Native American tribes file federal lawsuit against Sackler family over opioid crisis”, in CNN:
text: Michael Winkleman, the attorney who represents Chloe’s family but does not represent Anello in his criminal case, said the toddler loved glass and windows, and her grandfather had placed her on a ledge by a glass wall, but had no idea one window was open.
ref: 2019 November 26, Amanda Watts, “Grandfather cries as he recounts toddler falling to her death from a cruise ship”, in CNN:
antonyms: word: grandmother
english: with regard to gender
translation: with regard to gender
word: grandson
english: with regard to ancestry
translation: with regard to ancestry
word: grandfather
glosses: A father of someone's parent.
examples: text: Brethren: Here is the pipe which your grandfathers used to smoke with when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship they had together.
ref: 1758 November 25, [Israel Daniel Rupp], “[No. XI.] Post’s Second Journal, 1758. The Second Journal of Christian Frederick Post, on a Message from the Governor of Pennsylvania, to the Indians of the Ohio, in the Latter Part of the Same Year.”, in Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, […], Pittsburgh, Pa.: Published by A. P. Ingram, […]; Harrisburg, Pa.: Published by W. O. Hickok, published 1848, →OCLC, page 111:
synonyms: word: highfather
word: grandsire
glosses: A male forefather.
examples: text: File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B.
ref: 1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 50, page 22:
text: Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
ref: 2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31:
text: The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
ref: 2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 556:
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glosses: The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
Synonyms: word: ayle
word: elderfather
word: eldfather
word: goodsire
word: gramp
word: grampa
word: gramps
word: grampop
word: gran
word: granda
word: grandad
word: grandaddy
word: granddad
word: granddaddy
word: grandfather
word: grandpa
word: grandpap
word: grandpapa
word: grandpappy
word: Grandpappy
word: grandpaw
word: grandpop
word: grandsire
word: granfer
word: granpappy
word: granther
word: nonno
word: pa
word: pap
word: papa
word: papaw
word: pappaw
word: pappy
word: Pappy
word: pawpaw
word: peepaw
word: pepaw
word: pop-pop
word: poppy
word: zayde
Hypernyms: word: grandparent
word: relative
Hyponyms: sense: father of someone's father
word: paternal grandfather
sense: father of someone's mother
word: maternal grandfather
Derived terms: co-grandfather
GILF
grandfather chair
grandfather clause
grandfather clock
grandfatherhood
grandfather-in-law
grandfatherish
grandfatherism
grandfatherless
grandfatherly
grandfather paradox
grandfather rights
grandfathership
grandfather shirt
great-grandfather
great-great-grandfather
great great great grandfather
stepgrandfather
you kiss your grandfather with that mouth
Related terms: word: old man