(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.
Grandson
Definition:
(n.) A son's or daughter's son.
Example Sentences:
(1) After getting his Stanford MBA, the grandson went to Russia in 1990 and developed one of the most successful investment funds operating in the country.
(2) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(3) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(4) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
(5) Geza, a small 69-year-old man with bright eyes, knows how tough it has become for single parents to look after a child in poor villages like Lipunga: his own grandson was sent to an orphanage for a few months after the child's mother died.
(6) Ormond, grandson of Sargent’s sister, has been working for years on the definitive catalogue of the artist’s enormous output, and has reached volume nine.
(7) We have no money to treat my grandsons or to feed ourselves.
(8) Cody Tennant, his grandson, succeeds as the 4th Baron Glenconner.
(9) Recombination between the four loci 52A, F9, fragile X, and ST14 is significantly decreased in meioses giving rise to the affected grandsons of normal transmitting males, when compared to families where there are no apparent normal transmitting males.
(10) We report a four generation family in which there was a subject with minimal expression and another with non-penetrance between a great grandfather and his great grandson.
(11) "It was Sunday and Ovsanna's mother was coming back from church; the priest had just announced that every neighbourhood in the city had to be emptied in three days," says her grandson Frédéric, who has preserved the family story.
(12) Only Mandla, the eldest grandson, has followed him into parliament.
(13) I played with my 11-month-old grandson, Rohen McCrory, after the contest.
(14) Another co-author, John Hemingway, is the grandson of Ernest Hemingway , who shone a spotlight on the San Fermín festival in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
(15) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(16) Preston grew up just a few miles down the road in Worthing, his American mother the daughter of a professor of English at Princeton university, his father the public school-educated great great great grandson of Earl Grey.
(17) Originally from Boston, Twersky was a father of five and was the grandson of the renowned rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik, credited with being a key figure in the Modern Orthodox movement.
(18) George P Bush, the nephew and grandson of the former presidents, will soon take charge of the General Land Office – one of two Texas state agencies that have joined an industry lawsuit to overturn the ban.
(19) Nadezhda Dvornikova, a 57-year-old pensioner, held her grandson by the hand as she walked the halls of Moscow's Polytechnical College.
(20) Of course Brahim approved of the choice of his grandson's name.