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Grandfather

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

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Grandpa 92% connected

Alt. of Grandpapa

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Africander noun · 78% connection

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…

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Agnate adjective · 78% connection

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

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Ancestor noun · 78% connection

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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Ascent unknown · 78% connection

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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Aunt noun · 78% connection

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

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Brother noun · 78% connection

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

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Brother german unknown · 78% connection

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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Collateral adjective · 78% connection

Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

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Father noun · 78% connection

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural…

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Foster verb · 78% connection

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

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Generation noun · 78% connection

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the sa…

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Grandaunt noun · 78% connection

The aunt of one's father or mother.

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Grandmother noun · 78% connection

The mother of one's father or mother.

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Granduncle noun · 78% connection

A father's or mother's uncle.

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Half blood unknown · 78% connection

The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood…

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Hotchpotch noun · 78% connection

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the an…

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Inherit verb · 78% connection

To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…

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Issue noun · 78% connection

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all line…

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