grandfather
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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 Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather.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.
Base: father
Affixes: grand-
Inflected forms:
form: grandfathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grandfathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grandfathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grandfathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grandfathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A father of someone's parent.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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; […]
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.
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."
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.”
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.
“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.
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.
gloss: A male forefather.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
gloss: The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
pos: noun
examples: File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B.
Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
gloss: To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: ayle
elderfather
eldfather
goodsire
gramp
grampa
gramps
grampop
gran
granda
grandad
grandaddy
granddad
granddaddy
grandfather
grandpa
grandpap
grandpapa
grandpappy
Grandpappy
grandpaw
grandpop
grandsire
granfer
granpappy
granther
nonno
pa
pap
papa
papaw
pappaw
pappy
Pappy
pawpaw
peepaw
pepaw
pop-pop
poppy
zayde
Antonyms: grandmother
grandchild
granddaughter
grandson
Related words: old man
Derived words: 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
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