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How to pronounce grandfather in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa
Type of grandparent

Examples of grandfather

grandfather
Rahman said his grandfather, who built the place, and his father were both dead.
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He knew how to talk to the American people, the way he talked to my grandfather.
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Eventually, she sent Phillip to live with his grandfather in Missouri, she said.
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He learnt his bush skills from his grandfather who trapped rabbits for a living.
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They stop for refreshment at the house of an Armenian friend of the grandfather.
From the guardian.co.uk
Counselman wanted some of that, and some of what his father and grandfather had.
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She is sole heir to her grandfather, a wealthy art dealer called Paul Rosenberg.
From the independent.co.uk
Here Fabien Cousteau remembers time spent with his grandfather Jacques Cousteau.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The two finally married in 1885 at the home of the Axson's paternal grandfather.
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  • A legal term that means all existing conditions that were present at the time of a law, legal agreement, or ordinance do not have to be changed since they were there when the conditions were legal.
  • Something which is an exception to a rule (or pattern, behavior, etc.), because it existed before that rule was formulated.
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