Usually means: Ancestors, typically male, from generations.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. grandfathers: Merriam-Webster
  2. grandfathers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. grandfathers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Grandfather's, Grandfathers, Grandfathers, grandfather's, grandfathers, grandfathers: Wordnik
  5. grandfathers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. grandfathers: Wiktionary
  7. grandfathers: Dictionary.com
  8. grandfathers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. grandfathers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grandfathers: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. grandfathers: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grandfathers: Encyclopedia

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  1. grandfathers: Idioms

(Note: See grandfather as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grandfather)

noun:  A father of someone's parent.
noun:  (by extension) A male forefather.
noun:  (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
verb:  (transitive) To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them).
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