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grandcestor

grandcestor noun: a distant ancestor.

Noun

grandcestor (plural grandcestors)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard) A distant ancestor.
    • I thought 'twould give it a kind of flavor, if I polished up your grandcestor's old cover with the family cress, to put over it.1906, Mrs. Burton Harrison, The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy, page 4
    • “Guardian dogs for some monastery in the Himalayas. Someone snatched them and came here. A couple of monks hired me to get them back.” “What, they don't have dog pounds in Tibet?” I shrugged. “The monks think their great-grandcestor was a divine spirit-animal ...”2004, Jim Butcher, Blood Rites, Penguin, →ISBN, page 11
    Synonyms:
    grandancestor

Examples of grandcestor in a sentence

  • Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128:
  • This may seem trivial to us today, but in the 1850s, if your greatgreat-great-great-great-great-grandcestor had one teeny weenie drop of African blood, you were considered a black person!2014, Kristina Townsend, FOX NEWS NUTS? (Unfair & Unbalanced for over 200 years), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:

Synonyms of grandcestor

Forms of grandcestor

pluralgrandcestors

Origin of grandcestor

Blend of grand- + ancestor, with the first element evoking grandparent.

Questions about grandcestor

What does grandcestor mean?
Grandcestor means a distant ancestor.
How do you use grandcestor in a sentence?
Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.
What part of speech is grandcestor?
Grandcestor is a noun.
What is the plural of grandcestor?
The plural of grandcestor is grandcestors.

Words near grandcestor in the dictionary

  1. grandbrat
  2. grandbrats
  3. Grandcamp-Maisy
  4. grandcat
  5. grandcats
  6. grandcestor
  7. grandcestors
  8. grandchild
  9. grandchildhood
  10. grandchildhoods
  11. grandchildless

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