1. A grandfather.
2. In poetry and rhetoric, any ancestor.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.
Veteran Roget’s Thesaurus §130
N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, methuselah, nestor, old parr, elders, forefathers
Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage"
Paternity Roget’s Thesaurus §166
N. paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother
Phr. avi numerantur avorum, "happy he with such a mother", hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit
No Bible verses found for "Grandsire".