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grandancestor

grandancestor noun: a distant ancestor.

Noun

grandancestor (plural grandancestors)

  1. (rare) A distant ancestor.
    • In concluding this sketch, it affords the writer much pleasure to state that the time-stained pages of the old record shows not a single case of theft, petit larceny, forgery or perjury on the part of the grandancestors of our old Norfolk families.1898, E[gbert] A[mericus] Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement or Norfolk’s Foundation Builders and Their Family Genealogies, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, […], page 396
    • One more thing then I’ll stop dear parents on your mountaintop I and my fellow animal-creatures down here in the swamp are as closely related to the extraterrestrials over your heads as the rats to the stars and beyond where ancient grandancestors call the tune of the words of the singer I would...1980, Dory Previn, Bog-Trotter: An Autobiography with Lyrics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 126
    Synonyms:
    grandcestor

Synonyms of grandancestor

Forms of grandancestor

pluralgrandancestors

Origin of grandancestor

From grand- + ancestor.

Questions about grandancestor

What does grandancestor mean?
Grandancestor means a distant ancestor.
What part of speech is grandancestor?
Grandancestor is a noun.
What is the plural of grandancestor?
The plural of grandancestor is grandancestors.

Words near grandancestor in the dictionary

  1. grandalas
  2. grandam
  3. grandame
  4. grandames
  5. grandams
  6. grandancestor
  7. grandancestors
  8. grandas
  9. grandaughter
  10. grandaughters
  11. grandaunt

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