Word Meanings - GRANDSIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

Related words: (words related to GRANDSIRE)

• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• ANCESTORIAL
  Ancestral. Grote.
• GRANDFATHER
  A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. See Dady longlegs.
• GRANDFATHERLY
  Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.
• ANCESTOR
  An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. (more info) first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancêtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.