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grandsire

grandsire noun: grandfather.

Noun

grandsire (plural grandsires)

  1. (archaic) Grandfather.
    • “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. […]"1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998
  2. Any male ancestor.
  3. Any of a number of methods of change-ringing on bells.
  4. The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather

grandsire meaning in Tamil

grandsire in Tamil

தாத்தா, மூதாதை, வயதானவர்

Forms of grandsire

pluralgrandsires

Origin of grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

Questions about grandsire

What does grandsire mean?
Grandsire means grandfather.
What is grandsire in Tamil?
Grandsire in Tamil is தாத்தா, மூதாதை, வயதானவர். See Grandsire meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grandsire?
Grandsire is a noun.
What is the plural of grandsire?
The plural of grandsire is grandsires.

Words near grandsire in the dictionary

  1. grands fromages
  2. grands prix
  3. grands seigneurs
  4. grands-ducs
  5. grandsir
  6. grandsire
  7. grandsires
  8. grandsirs
  9. grandsome
  10. grandson
  11. grandson-in-law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grandsire (page history and authors); grandsire (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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