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grandsires

grandsires is the plural of grandsire.

Meaning of grandsire

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

Questions about grandsires

What is grandsires the plural of?
Grandsires is the plural of grandsire.

Words near grandsires in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grandsires (page history and authors); grandsire (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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