What's the difference between grandad and grandfather?

Grandad


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
  • (2) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
  • (3) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
  • (4) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
  • (5) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
  • (6) Grandad may have survived on the streets of east London as a boy thanks to the kindness of the Salvation Army but he was frankly clueless about Merseybeat.
  • (7) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
  • (8) There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about my cousin, my dad, my nan and grandad.
  • (9) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
  • (10) My first day – you’d have thought a couple of school kids would have been dragged in by a dad or grandad.
  • (11) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
  • (12) The way we’re taught it is, ‘well, our ancestors were there, and we always believe grandad and granny’.” This obviously won’t satisfy the sceptics.
  • (13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
  • (14) Or, as they are in the French press, “le gang du papys” (the grandads’ gang).
  • (15) It read: "Girls, grannies, mums, dads, lads, grandads – everyone meet on Sneinton Dale tonight at 9 o'clock as we are all going to kick off …" Lowe a 39-month prison sentence.
  • (16) "He was a champion, my old great-grandad," Saunders says, grinning, "and you can still see that today.
  • (17) I remember that my grandad was just like a father to me and that he always used to take me along to training and pay my subs as a kid to the local teams in my town when he had to.
  • (18) However, I often borrow poetry books off my mum, and when I was younger, my grandma and grandad bought me a poetry anthology that first sparked my interest in poetry.
  • (19) Ellie Butler's grandad: 'The devastation is complete and utter' Read more Neal Gray said Tuesday’s verdicts were fantastic news.
  • (20) I sat my children down in November and asked if they'd like to spend Christmas Day with Granny, Grandad and Daddy; and celebrate another on New Year's Eve with me.

Grandfather


Definition:

  • (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
  • (2) Two G6PD bands, both slightly faster than normal G6PD B, were seen on electrophoresis in both the propositus as well as in his maternal grandfather.
  • (3) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
  • (4) My great-grandfather helped form the Independent Labour party; had a role in the co-operative movement.
  • (5) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
  • (6) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
  • (7) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
  • (8) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
  • (9) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
  • (10) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
  • (11) An Australian family that lost three children and a grandfather in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has published an emotional tribute calling for an end to the “pointless war” in eastern Ukraine.
  • (12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
  • (13) The last in a line of fishermen, his 87-year-old grandfather is still catching lobsters.
  • (14) Her grandfather, who lived a life of sexual scandal and frustrated ambition, introduced her to books.
  • (15) It was found that the overall fit to the Poisson distribution of the samples from grandfathers was very poor; in contrast, the samples from young fathers fit well.
  • (16) I believe he shared more with his psychoanalyst grandfather than he liked to admit.
  • (17) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
  • (18) This skeletal abnormality also existed in his paternal great-grandfather.
  • (19) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
  • (20) "That's the farm where my grandfather was born," he says.

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