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grandcestor

noun

Etymology

Blend of grand- + ancestor, with the first element evoking grandparent.

  1. derived from ancessor
  2. derived from ancestre
  3. derived from ancestre
  4. compounded as grandcestor — “grand- + ancestor”

Definitions

  1. A distant ancestor.

    • I thought 'twould give it a kind of flavor, if I polished up your grandcestor's old cover with the family cress, to put over it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grandcestor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA