GRANDFATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandfather mean? 

• GRANDFATHER (noun)
  The noun GRANDFATHER has 1 sense:

1. the father of your father or mother

  Familiarity information: GRANDFATHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDFATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The father of your father or mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gramps; grandad; granddad; granddaddy; grandfather; grandpa

Hypernyms ("grandfather" is a kind of...):

grandparent (a parent of your father or mother)

 Context examples 

But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Ah, but I didn't mean to go alone!" and Laurie walked fast through the room with an expression which it was well his grandfather did not see.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Do you know what my great grandfather's name was?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

'Swim out, my fine fellow,' cried my grandfather, 'and see if the water has spotted your clothes.'

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You must know that my grandfather had two sons—my uncle Elias and my father Joseph.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfather, and gurt (great) grandfather afore him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her father was a grazier, her grandfather had been a butcher, but that was all nothing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Meanwhile the supper was in full swing—one of those solid and uncompromising meals which prevailed in the days of your grandfathers, and which may explain to some of you why you never set eyes upon that relative.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)