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Definition: Grandfather |
GrandfatherNoun1. The father of your father or mother. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grandfather" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Emperor Wen of Han China, ch 漢文帝, py. hàn wén dì, wg. Han Wen-ti, (202 BC - 157 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wen was deliberately chosen as emperor after elimination of the clan of Lü since her mother Consort Bo had no powerful relatives. His reign brought a much needed political stability that laid the groundwork of prosperity under Emperor Wu. Historians describe that Confucian-educated ministers were entrusted and consulted for state affairs, and Emperor Wen, under the influence of his Daoist wife Empress Dou, avoided wasteful expenditures.
Legends noted that the tax rates were at a ratio of "1 out of 30" and "1 out of 60", corresponding to 0.03 and 0.016 percent respectively. Warehouses were so full of grains, some of which were left to decay.
In a move of lasting importance in 165 BC, Emperor Wen introduced recruitment to the civil service through examinations. Potential officials never sat for any sort of academic examinations. Their names were sent by local officials to the central government based on reputations and abilities, which were sometimes judged subjectively.
Family name Liu (劉 liú) in Chinese Given name Heng (恆 héng) in Chinese Era name Houyuan (後元 hòu yúan) 163 BC-156 BC Father Emperor Gao of Han China Mother Consort Bo Wife Empress Dou (d. 135 BC) Children 5 sons, including Emperor Jing of Han China Duration of reign 180 BC-157 BC Tomb Temple name Courtesy name Posthumous name 孝文 (py. xiào wén), literary meaning: "filial and civil" Posthumous name in short 文 (py. wén), literary meaning: "civil"
See also
- Daoism
- Confucianism
Preceded by:
Empress Dowager LüWestern Han Dynasty Succeeded by:
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Grandfather is a village located in Avery County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 73.Geography
Grandfather is located at 36°6'2" North, 81°51'1" West (36.100525, -81.850153)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.0 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.9 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.60% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 73 people, 32 households, and 24 families residing in the village. The population density is 18.8/km² (48.6/mi²). There are 377 housing units at an average density of 97.0/km² (251.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 95.89% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.37% from other races, and 2.74% from two or more races. 5.48% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 32 households out of which 25.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.9% are married couples living together, 6.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.9% are non-families. 21.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.28 and the average family size is 2.60. In the village the population is spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 1.4% from 18 to 24, 9.6% from 25 to 44, 37.0% from 45 to 64, and 30.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 53 years. For every 100 females there are 82.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 78.1 males. The median income for a household in the village is $53,125, and the median income for a family is $115,385. Males have a median income of $5,625 versus $29,583 for females. The per capita income for the village is $44,706. 14.6% of the population and 7.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 30.8% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grandfather, North Carolina."
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John Quincy Adams 
Order: 6th President Term of Office: March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829 Followed: James Monroe Succeeded by: Andrew Jackson Date of Birth July 11, 1767 Place of Birth: Quincy, Massachusetts Date of Death: February 23, 1848 Place of Death: Washington, D.C First Lady: Louisa Catherine Johnson Occupation: lawyer Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice President: John C. Calhoun Nicknames: Old Man Eloquent John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848) was the sixth (1825-1829) President of the United States. He was the son of President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams. He is the first President whose father was also President.
Biography
John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, (in a part of town which is now Quincy, Massachusetts), and acquired his early education in Europe at the University of Leiden. He graduated from Harvard University in 1787. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts. He was appointed Minister to the Netherlands in 1794, Minister to Portugal in 1796 and Minister to Prussia in 1797. He was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1802, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the same year. He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party. He was Minister to Russia from 1809 to 1814, a member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and Minister to England from 1815 to 1817. He was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825.
The decision in the Presidential Election of 1824 fell, according to the U.S. Constitution, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the States. Adams, who stood second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral vote, was chosen and served from March 4, 1825, to March 4, 1829.Adams was then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834. He served from March 4, 1831, until his death. He was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-second through Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), the Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834. In 1841, Adams represented the Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court of the United States and successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship where they were being held as illegal slaves, should not be returned to Spain, but returned home as free people.
Adams died in the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. His interment was in the family burial ground at Quincy, Massachusetts and subsequently reinterred in the United First Parish Church.
Supreme Court appointments
- Robert Trimble - 1826
Related articles
- U.S. presidential election, 1820
- U.S. presidential election, 1824
- U.S. presidential election, 1828
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James MonroePresidents of the United States Succeeded by:
Andrew JacksonSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "John Quincy Adams."
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John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710-1771), second son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey, was born on 30 September 1710. Known as Lord John Russell, he married in October 1731 Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland; became Duke of Bedford on his brother’s death a year later; and having lost his first wife in 1735 married in April 1737 Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower (d. 1794), daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower.In the House of Lords he joined the party hostile to Sir Robert Walpole, took a fairly prominent part in public business, and earned the dislike of George II. When Carteret, now Earl Granville, resigned office in November 1744, Bedford became First Lord of the Admiralty in the administration of Henry Pelham, and was made a privy councillor. He was very successful at the admiralty, but was not equally fortunate after he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department in February 1748. Pelham accused him of idleness; he was constantly at variance with his colleague the Duke of Newcastle, and resigned office in June 1751.
Instigated by his friends he was active in opposition to the government, and after Newcastle’s resignation in November 1756, became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the ministry of William Pitt and the Duke of Devonshire, retaining this office after Newcastle, in alliance with Pitt, returned to power in June 1757. In Ireland he favoured a relaxation of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, but did not keep his promises to observe neutrality between the rival parties, and to abstain from securing pensions for his friends. His own courtly manners and generosity, and his wife’s good qualities, however, seem to have gained for him some popularity, although Horace Walpole says he disgusted everybody. In March 1761 he resigned this office.
Having allied himself with the Earl of Bute and the party anxious to bring the Seven Years War to a close, Bedford was noticed as the strongest opponent of Pitt, and became Lord Privy Seal under Bute after Pitt resigned in October 1761. The cabinet of Bute was divided over the policy to he pursued with regard to the war, but pacific counsels prevailed, and in September 1762 Bedford went to France to treat for peace. He was considerably annoyed because some of the peace negotiations were conducted through other channels, but he signed the Peace of Paris in February 1763. Resigning his office as Lord Privy Seal soon afterwards, various causes of estrangement arose between Bute and Bedford, and the subsequent relations of the two men were somewhat virulent. The duke refused to take office under George Grenville on Bute’s resignation in April 1763, and sought to induce Pitt to return to power. A report, however, that Pitt would only take office on condition that Bedford was excluded, incensed him and, smarting under this rebuff, he joined the cabinet of Grenville as Lord President of the Council in September 1763. His haughty manner, his somewhat insulting language, and his attitude with regard to the regency bill in 1765 offended George III, who sought in vain to supplant him, and after this failure was obliged to make humiliating concessions to the ministry. In July 1765, however, he was able to dispense with the services of Bedford and his colleagues, and the duke became the leader of a political party, distinguished for rapacity, and known as the “ Bedford party,” or the “ Bloomsbury gang.”
During his term of office he had opposed a bill to place high import duties on Italian silks. He was consequently assaulted and his London residence attacked by a mob. He took some part in subsequent political intrigues, and although he did not return to office, his friends, with his consent, joined the ministry of the Duke of Grafton in December 1767. This proceeding led "Junius" to write his "letter to the duke of Bedford," one of especial violence. Bedford was hostile to John Wilkes, and narrowly escaped from a mob favourable to the agitator at Honiton in July 1769.
His health had been declining for some years, and in 1770 he became partially paralysed. He died at Woburn on 5 January 1771, and was buried in the family burying-place at Chenies. His three sons all predeceased him, and he was succeeded in the title by his grandson, Francis.
The duke held many public offices: lord-lieutenant of Bedfordshireshire and Devonshire, and chancellor of Dublin University among others, and was a knight of the garter. Bedford was a proud and conceited man, but possessed both ability and common-sense. The important part which he took in public life, however, was due rather to his wealth and position than to his personal taste or ambition. He was neither above nor below the standard of political morality of the time, and was influenced by his duchess, who was very ambitious, and by followers who were singularly unscrupulous.
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Leo III, the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor 717-741 was born about 680 in the Syrian province of Commagene. He rose to distinction in the military, and under Anastasius II he was given the command of the eastern army. In 717 he revolted against the usurper Theodosius III and, marching upon Constantinople, was elected emperor in his place. The first year of Leo's reign saw an important siege of his capital by the Arabs, who had taken advantage of the civil discord in the Roman empire to bring a force of 80,000 men to the Bosporus. By his stubborn defence the new ruler wore out the invaders who, after a twelve months' siege, withdrew their forces. An important factor in the victory of the Romans was their use of Greek fire. Having thus preserved the empire from extinction, Leo proceeded to consolidate its administration, which in the previous years of anarchy had become completely disorganized. He secured its frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency; when the Arabs renewed their invasions in 726 and 739 they were decisively beaten. His civil reforms include the abolition of the system of prepaying taxes which had weighed heavily upon the wealthier proprietors, the elevation of the serfs into a class of free tenants and the remodelling of family and of maritime law. These measures, which were embodied in a new code published in 740, met with some opposition on the part of the nobles and higher clergy.But Leo's most striking legislative reforms dealt with religious matters, especially iconoclasm. After an apparently successful attempt to enforce the baptism of all Jews and Montanists in the empire (722), he issued a series of edicts against the worship of images (726-729). This prohibition of a custom which had undoubtedly given rise to grave abuses seems to have been inspired by a genuine desire to improve public morality, and received the support of the official aristocracy and a section of the clergy. But a majority of the theologians and all the monks opposed these measures with uncompromising hostility, and in the western parts of the empire the people refused to obey the edict. A revolt which broke out in Greece, mainly on religious grounds, was crushed by the imperial fleet (727), and two years later, by deposing the patriarch of Constantinople, Leo suppressed the overt opposition of the capital. In Italy the defiant attitude of Popes Gregory II and III on behalf of image-worship led to a fierce quarrel with the emperor. The former summoned councils in Rome to anathematize and excommunicate the iconoclasts (730, 732); Leo retaliated by transferring southern Italy and Greece from the papal diocese to that of the patriarch. The struggle was accompanied by an armed outbreak in the exarchate of Ravenna (727), which Leo finally endeavoured to subdue by means of a large fleet. But the destruction of the armament by a storm decided the issue against him; his south Italian subjects successfully defied his religious edicts, and the province of Ravenna became detached from the empire.
Preceded by:
Theodosius IIIByzantine emperors Followed by:
Constantine V
see also Pope Leo III, 795-816.
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Synonyms: GrandfatherSynonyms: gramps (n), grandad (n), granddad (n), granddaddy (n), grandpa (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Paternity | Parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap. |
Veteran | Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard. |
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Crosswords: Grandfather |
| English words defined with "grandfather": ago, Ascending line, Ayle ♦ Be, beat, Belsire, bequeath, bury, buss ♦ Cosinage ♦ entomb ♦ Grandfatherly, Grandpapa, Grandsire, Great-grandfather, Great-grandmother ♦ inter ♦ kiss ♦ lay to rest, leave, live ♦ osculate ♦ pass ♦ tick, ticktack, ticktock, Tresayle ♦ Utnapishtim ♦ will, Writ of Ayle, Writ of tresayle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grandfather": Codlin's your Friend, not Short, Cummer ♦ Elihu ♦ Grahame's Dyke, Great Head ♦ Half-done, Hezion ♦ Iddo, Inventors Punished ♦ King's-Crag ♦ Lockhart ♦ Maiden King, Mehetabeel, Mitton ♦ Pitt Diamond ♦ Seraiah. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grandfather": Uncle. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yes, it comes naturally; his grandfather was a snake (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) He's my grandfather -- couple of generations removed (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) And your grandfather pointed out that shake was always being taller than me just to spite me. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter; I was raised to give up (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I could say that my name was Bonaparte, and show you Napoleon's tomb; that wouldn't make him my grandfather would it (Show Boat; writing credit: Edna Ferber; Oscar Hammerstein II) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Here's to Harry's Grandfather (1970) Grandfather (1913) The Grandfather (1912) Taming a Grandfather (1910) My Grandfather Is a Vampire (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Photo #1 - Three generations of fishermen - father, grandfather, and grandson share the surf and sun at Cape Hatteras. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Theater Square, Grandfather Frost performs for 1999 New Year's, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | Being a brand new grandfather. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House of Hon. John Sharp Williams, Cedar Grove Plantation, 11 miles from Yazoo City, Mississippi--Built 1838 for John Sharp, grandfather of J.S. Williams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Fighting Bob" La Follette as a grandfather. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Residence of Dr. J.H. Lancashire, the hall and grandfather clock, Alma, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grandfather Nutter's Room, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial, Portsmouth, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Room with balcony, paintings, fireplace, grandfather clock, and elk head, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Study with portrait of woman in Elizabethan dress, over fireplace, fringe lamp at right, and buffalo statue on left; elk head on wall and grandfather clock in background, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering maple sap from sugar maple trees to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syr. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bear" by Stevan Sheets Commentary: "A bear at Grandfather Mountain, NC." |
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 | Grandfather clock chiming four o'clock . | | Electronic grandfather clock chimes once. |
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Abraham Lincoln | I don't know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
Henry Fielding | Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. |
Victor Hugo | There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. |
Walter Scott | A grandfather is no longer a social institution. -- Men do not live in the past. -- They merely look back. -- Forward is the universal cry. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I have known a man set to examine his own grandfather. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was three years since he had left his grandfather. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | No, I treat you as your grandfather treated me when I was a young chap |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | My grandfather seemed so weak and frail and forgetful. (references) | |
Children | Dominican Republic | In the majority of the cases, the accused is a person close to the child: A father, grandfather, uncle, brother, cousin, or close family friend. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Togo | Although a grandfather clause applies to those already active in journalism, observers believe that this law could be used to prevent persons seen as unsympathetic to the Government from becoming journalists. (references) |
Economic History | China | China has agreed to grandfather all existing current market access and activities in all services sectors. (references) |
Human Rights | Pakistan | A criminal complaint was filed against Miankhel's uncle, father, grandfather, two cousins, and two maternal uncles on July 7. All were granted prearrest bail and were not detained. (references) |
Women | Fiji | For example, a grandfather charged with raping a 10-year old girl was given a suspended sentence in January, but in another case in February, the guilty party was given a 3-month jail term. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
William Shatner | I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. |
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| "Grandfather" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.66% of the time. "Grandfather" is used about 1,494 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.66% | 1,429 | 5,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.34% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,494 | N/A |
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1. Grandfather, NC (village, FIPS 27320) |
Expressions using "grandfather": grandfather chair ♦ grandfather clause ♦ grandfather clock ♦ Grandfather longlegs ♦ great grandfather ♦ late grandfather ♦ maternal grandfather ♦ paternal grandfather. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "grandfather": grandfather-father. | |
Ending with "grandfather": great-great-great-grandfather. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grandfather"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | grootvader. (various references) | |
Albanian | gjysh (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, grandparent, grandsire). (various references) | |
Arabic | جد (ancestor, earnest, forbear, forefather, granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, grandparent, happen, hard work, industry, predecessor, seriousness), السلف (form, predecessor). (various references) | |
Asturian | güelu. (various references) | |
Aymara | achachila. (various references) | |
Basque | aitona. (various references) | |
Bemba | shikulu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дядо (gran-dad, granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, grandsire). (various references) | |
Catalan | avi. (various references) | |
Cebuano | apohang lalaki. (various references) | |
Chamorro | guello. (various references) | |
Chinese | 祖父. (various references) | |
Cornish | syrawyn. (various references) | |
Czech | dìdeèek (grand dad, granddad, grandpa), dědeček. (various references) | |
Danish | bedstefader. (various references) | |
Dutch | grootvader (maternal grandfather), opa (granddad). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | jatuntaita. (various references) | |
Esperanto | avo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | abbi. (various references) | |
Farsi | پدربزرگ (Grandpa, Progenitor). (various references) | |
Finnish | isoisä. (various references) | |
French | grand-père, aïeul. (various references) | |
Frisian | pake, oarreheit. (various references) | |
German | Großvater (granddad), opa (fogey, gaffer, geezer, granddad, grandpa, pop). (various references) | |
Greek | παππούσ (grandpa), παππούς (granddad, grandpa). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gjysh. (various references) | |
Hebrew | סבא (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, granny), סב (elder, granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, old man). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagyapa (granddad, grandpa). (various references) | |
Icelandic | afi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kakek (granddad), datuk-datuk. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ataatattiaq. (various references) | |
Irish | seanathair, athair mór, athair críonna. (various references) | |
Italian | nonno (granddad, grandpa, grandparent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 祖父 , 爺さん (male senior-citizen), 爺 (old man), お祖父さん (male senior-citizen), お爺さん (male senior-citizen), 御祖父さん (male senior-citizen), 御爺さん (male senior-citizen). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おじいさん (male senior-citizen), そふ (coarse cloth), じいさん (male senior-citizen), じじい (old man), じじ (current affairs, events of the day, old man). (various references) | |
Kongo | nkaka wa bakala. (various references) | |
Korean | 할아버지. (various references) | |
Lombard | nonno. (various references) | |
Macedonian | dedo. (various references) | |
Manx | shennayr (ancestor, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, grandparent, progenitor), shaner, jishag mooar (granddad, grandpa), jed mooar. (various references) | |
Maori | tupuna. (various references) | |
Maya | nool. (various references) | |
Mohawk | -hsotha. (various references) | |
Norwegian | bestefar (grand-father). (various references) | |
Occitan | grand (pair). (various references) | |
Papago | bahb. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tawela, padushi, padú. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | grandpapa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andfathergray.(various references) | |
Polish | dziadek. (various references) | |
Portuguese | avô. (various references) | |
Provencal | grand. (various references) | |
Romanian | bunic (grand pa, grandpapa, grandparent), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome). (various references) | |
Romansch | tat. (various references) | |
Romany | papòo. (various references) | |
Ruanda | sogokuru. (various references) | |
Russian | дед (granddad). (various references) | |
Samoan | tama o matua. (various references) | |
Scottish | seanair (a grandfather). (various references) | |
Sepedi | rakgolo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deda (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa). (various references) | |
Shona | sekuru. (various references) | |
Sicilian | nannu. (various references) | |
Spanish | abuelo (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, grandparent, greybeard). (various references) | |
Sranan | grantata, granp'pa. (various references) | |
Swazi | mkhûlu. (various references) | |
Swedish | farfar (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, paternal grandfather), morfar (granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, maternal grandfather). (various references) | |
Thai | ปู่ทวด (great-grandfather). (various references) | |
Turkish | büyükbaba (grand dad, granddad, grandpa, grandpapa). (various references) | |
Turkmen | baba, ata. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | предок (ancestor, ascendant, forefather, grandsire, predecessor, progenitor), дідусь (grand dad, grandad, grandpa, grandpapa), дід (grand dad, grandad, grandsire). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ông đồng hồ to để đứng. (various references) | |
Welsh | taid, tad-cu. (various references) | |
Xhosa | notatomkhulu (And grandfather). (various references) | |
Yucatec | tatich, tata (father), tat (father). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ad-da-ad-da. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | abi abi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | avi, avis, avus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grandfather": grandfathered, grandfathering, grandfatherly, grandfathers. (additional references) | |
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"Grandfather" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gradfather, grandather, granfather. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grandfather" (pronounced gra"ndfÄ'ther or gra"nfÄ'ther) |
| 5 | -d f Ä' th er | godfather. |
| 4 | -f Ä' th er | forefather, stepfather. |
| 4 | -f Ä' th er | forefather, godfather, stepfather. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-g-h-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: regardant. | |
-3 letters: arranged, fragrant, hangared, narrated. | |
-4 letters: arrange, drafter, dragnet, engraft, farther, fathead, gardant, gnarred, gradate, grafted, grafter, grander, granted, granter, narrate, redraft, regraft, regrant, tanager, thanage. | |
-5 letters: aarrgh, adnate, afeard, afghan, agenda, agnate, agrafe, anther, ardent, argent, arrant, dafter, danger, darner, darter, dearth, defang, dharna, errand, errant, errata, fanega, fanged, father, fraena, frater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-f-g-h-n-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: grandfathers. | |
+2 letters: grandfathered, grandfatherly. | |
+3 letters: grandfathering. | |
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