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grandfather

noun as in grandsire

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John David sees Boy Willie as a man who loves his father and grandfather, “but he’s also going to be nothing like them,” the actor says.

“She would always say that she’s grown and she can go where she wants to,” said Williams, who now lives on his grandfather’s farm in North Carolina and spoke by phone with The Times.

Her husband, who runs a one-man landscaping firm, had passed along a bit of wisdom from his grandfather, about how the president is just a lone individual and life is what you make it.

Her grandfather was a founder of a construction company that flourished in the 1970s, a period her parents spent in hiding as militants opposed to the regime.

Eddie’s grandmother sewed clothes in a factory; his grandfather was a musician who played accordion and guitar in restaurants.

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

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