grandsire

archaic

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Recent Examples of grandsire Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024 As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council. Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024 He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30. Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020 Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king. Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022 With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 June 2021 Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com, 8 June 2019 Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex. John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019 His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977. Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandsire
Noun
  • The sire of a hellion, then, should feel secure in his manhood.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Its legendary decades-long preeminence came to an abrupt end in 1990, when Alydar, racing’s most illustrious sire of champions at the time who was worth $45 million, died under inexplicable circumstances.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The patriarch played multiple instruments and even formed a small family quartet with his wife and two of their children.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The voters might want to cash in their IOU here, but something tells me the Globes have one truly trashy TV pick in them for this year and will get their Ryan Murphy on with a win for Javier Bardem as the domineering Menendez patriarch.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2013
  • Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
Noun
  • Advertisement Jason Carter, another grandson, praised his grandfather and his grandmother, the late First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who passed away in 2023.
    Bill Barrow and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Among the images in the carousel was also one of the girls smiling with their grandmother, Sameha Kotb.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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