GRANDFATHER meaning: Male ancestor, typically parent's father

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word grandfather:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

grandfather: Merriam-Webster
grandfather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grandfather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grandfather: Collins English Dictionary
grandfather: Vocabulary.com
Grandfather, grandfather: Wordnik
grandfather: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grandfather: Wiktionary
grandfather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grandfather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grandfather: Infoplease Dictionary
grandfather: Dictionary.com
grandfather: Online Etymology Dictionary
grandfather: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Grandfather (disambiguation), Grandfather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grandfather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grandfather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grandfather: Rhymezone
grandfather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grandfather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
grandfather: FreeDictionary.org
grandfather: Mnemonic Dictionary
grandfather: TheFreeDictionary.com
grandfather: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
grandfather: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

grandfather: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
grandfather: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Grandfather: Legal dictionary
grandfather: Financial dictionary
Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

grandfather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

grandfather: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

grandfather, grandfather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grandfather: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grandfathered as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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).

Similar:

granddad, granddaddy, grandpa, gramps, grandad, grandmother, father, uncle, grandson, aunt, more...

Opposite:

granddaughter, granddaughter, granddaughter, granddaughter, granddaughter

Types:

maternal, paternal, grandfather-in-law, step-grandfather, great-grandfather, more...

Phrases:

great grandfather, paternal grandfather, grandfather clock, grandfather in, grandfather clause, more...

Adjectives:

great, maternal, paternal, old, own, dear, poor, late, dead, greatgreat, beloved

Colors:

brown, gray, olive, burgundy, forest green, more...