grandfather
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/
- (GA) enPR: grănd′fä'thər, IPA: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, [ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ]
grandfather (plural grandfathers)
- A father#Noun|father of someone's parent#Noun|parent. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:grandfather
- Antonyms: grandmother, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, Thesaurus:grandmother
- 1766, William Blackstone, “Of Title by Descent”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522 ↗, page 203 ↗:
- 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.
- (by extension) A male forefather.
- Synonyms: highfather, grandsire
- French: grand-père, aïeul
- German: Großvater, Grossvater (Switzerland and Liechtenstein), Opa, Opi; Großvater väterlicherseits (paternal), Großvater mütterlicherseits (maternal)
- Italian: nonno
- Portuguese: avô
- Russian: де́душка
- Spanish: abuelo
grandfather (grandfathers, present participle grandfathering; past and past participle grandfathered)
- (transitive) To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
grandfather (grandfathers, present participle grandfathering; past and past participle grandfathered)
- (transitive, chiefly, US, law) To retain existing#Adjective|existing laws or rule#Noun|rules for (a person or organization previously affect#Verb|affected by them). [from 1950s]
- (intransitive, chiefly, US, law) To retain existing laws or rules only for people or organizations previously affected by them, and to apply new laws or rules to the unaffected people or organizations. [from 1950s]
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