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grandfather

noun as in grandsire

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In a poignant moment in the film, Eubank Jr tells his father he will soon be a grandfather to twin boys.

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She described her brother as bright, full of energy and a natural entrepreneur who had studied law at college and aspired to follow his great grandfather into a career in the Army.

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In a statement on Sunday, Laws' family said their "beloved father/grandfather/uncle" had died peacefully at his Sydney home earlier that day.

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They are more likely in that jar of change your grandfather kept, or in your mother’s safe-deposit box.

The King, wearing a field marshal's uniform, laid a wreath that is the same as the wreaths once placed here by his grandfather George VI, with 41 paper poppies on an arrangement of black leaves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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