Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A grandfather.
- noun One that is the first, oldest, or most respected of its kind.
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- noun informal A
grandfather .
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- noun the father of your father or mother
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1964, we passed the Civil Rights Act, our main granddaddy of civil rights legislation.
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Well, it's a program now referred to as the granddaddy of all reality television shows.
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My granddaddy was a director of the meat plant and after World War II he was sent to rebuild the Soviet economy in various parts of former Soviet Union.
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Because every little boy is convinced that his granddaddy is the most important granddaddy in the world.
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Finally one of them said to the other: "Your granddaddy was a d---- d Tory in the Revolutionary war."
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His granddaddy was a steelworker in western Pennsylvania, and maybe that's where Haley would've ended up if football hadn't jolted his father out of the small towns and into the NFL.
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His granddaddy was a steelworker in western Pennsylvania, and maybe that's where Haley would've ended up if football hadn't jolted his father out of the small towns and into the NFL.
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His granddaddy was a steelworker in western Pennsylvania, and maybe that's where Haley would've ended up if football hadn't jolted his father out of the small towns and into the NFL.
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His granddaddy was a steelworker in western Pennsylvania, and maybe that's where Haley would've ended up if football hadn't jolted his father out of the small towns and into the NFL.
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The first reality show, and was called the granddaddy of reality television, was Candid Camera by Allen Funt.
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