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
  • Homer was named after Gere's father, Homer Gere, with the middle name honoring his wife's sire, James Lowell.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The sire of a hellion, then, should feel secure in his manhood.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The Surrender Director/Screenwriter: Julia Max, Producers: Mia Chang, Lovell Holder, Julia Max, Ian McDonald, Robert J. Ulrich When the family patriarch dies, a grieving mother and daughter risk their lives to perform a brutal resurrection ritual that will bring him back from the dead.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Do Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones play real people in 'The Brutalist?’ The film kicks into high gear with the introduction of Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), a pompous patriarch and industrialist who commissions Tóth to design an elaborate community center.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 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
  • The woman was alert when taken to a hospital, while the three children were taken in by their grandmother.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The principles Brosseau learned growing up in his grandmother’s kitchen in Ontario inform the menu of Dear Margaret.
    Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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