grandfather
A father of someone's parent.
Other meanings
A male forefather.
The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle French "grandpere".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “grandfather” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.