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grandancestors

grandancestors is the plural of grandancestor.

Meaning of grandancestor

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
    Synonyms:
    grandcestor

Questions about grandancestors

What is grandancestors the plural of?
Grandancestors is the plural of grandancestor.

Words near grandancestors in the dictionary

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

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