grandsire
Americannoun
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a grandfather.
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Archaic.
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a forefather.
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an aged man.
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noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grandsire
1250–1300; Middle English graunt-sire < Anglo-French. See grand-, sire
Example Sentences
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Like COVID, unless you were there, it’s hard to believe the things that went on, but if you’re skeptical about what old grandsire tells you about the Great Gas Wars of the 1970s, believe him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Unbridled’s grandsire, Mr. Prospector, is a legend in American horse racing.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
Louisiana is my literary grandsire, the source of the content and dialect of my early stories.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2015
Then I said to myself, "My Mary weeps For the dead to-day:Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age away."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012
He drilled with an old fowling piece his grandsire had given him to shoot ducks on the Concord River.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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