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(informal) grandfather
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(informal) A grandfather.
(colloquial, humorous) Grandpa, grandfather.
Alternative spelling of granddad. [(informal) grandfather]
The father of one's grandparent.
The parent of someone's parent.
Father, dad.
(usually childish) Father.
A mother of someone's parent.
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
(informal) Grandmother.
(colloquial) A grandmother.
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
(with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
(colloquial, regional) A father.
A Maori male elder.
(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
Abbreviation of Performance Application Programming Interface.
A surname from Chinese.
(US, informal) grandfather
grandfather
(slang) One's grandfather.
(literally) An elderly man.
An ancestor.
Any male ancestor.
(informal) A grandfather, especially one with Italian ancestry.
A Hispanic grandfather.
(among people of German-speaking ancestry) Grandfather, grandpa.
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
A son of one's child.
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
The daughter of someone's child.
(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
Son of the same parents as another person.
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
Synonym of great-uncle.
One’s female offspring.
(US, informal) Grandmother.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)
A child of someone's child.
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
Alternative form of granddaughter. [The daughter of someone's child.]
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
Misspelling of descendant. [One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.]
The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
Alternative form of great-grandson. [A son of a grandchild.]
(informal) A stepfather.
One's male offspring.
Misspelling of daughter. [One’s female offspring.]
(US, dialect) grandfather
A person with the same name as another.
The father of someone's great-grandparent.
A great-grandfather.
A great-grandfather of one's spouse.
A parent of a grandparent; a grandparent of a parent.
A stepgrandfather or stepgrandmother.
A great-grandparent or great-grandchild.
A son of a grandchild.
A parent of a great-grandparent, a grandparent of a grandparent and a great-grandparent of a parent.
A half-brother of one's father.
A patronymic surname.
A relative who has with the other person only two great-grandparents in common, but where the parents and grandparents are different.
The identity and nature of one's grandparents.
(informal, usually endearing) A grandmother.
A male first cousin of one's mother or father.
Pronunciation spelling of grandfather. [A father of someone's parent.]
A child of one's father's sibling
A member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.
(dialect) grandfather
A grandchild of one's grandparent's first cousin.
The country of one's birth, origin.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
A child of a great-grandchild, a grandchild of a grandchild and a great-grandchild of a child.