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Webster 1913 Edition


Grandsire

Grand′sire′

,
Noun.
[OF.
grantsire
. See
Grand
, and
Sire
.]
Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grandsire

GRAND'SIRE

,
Noun.
A grandfather.
1.
In poetry and rhetoric, any ancestor.

Definition 2024


grandsire

grandsire

English

Noun

grandsire (plural grandsires)

  1. grandfather
    • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,
      “I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. [] "