喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈɡrænfɑːðər/ · /ˈɡrænfɑːðə/祖父／爺爺／外公

    The father of your mother or father.

    示範例句 · Example

    My grandfather tells me stories about when he was a boy.

    逐字我的祖父跟我說他小時候的故事。

    中文分「爺爺」（爸爸的爸爸）和「外公」（媽媽的爸爸），但英文一律用 grandfather，不分父方或母方。需要分清楚時，才說 paternal grandfather（父方）或 maternal grandfather（母方）。口語裡常說 grandpa。

    常見搭配

    • maternal grandfather

      外公（媽媽的爸爸）

      your mother's father

      Her maternal grandfather came from a fishing village.

    • paternal grandfather

      爺爺（爸爸的爸爸）

      your father's father

      His paternal grandfather ran a small farm.

    • great-grandfather

      曾祖父／外曾祖父

      the father of your grandfather or grandmother

      My great-grandfather planted this tree long ago.

core核心畫面

Picture climbing your family tree up past your parents — the man one more step up is your grandfather: your mother's father or your father's father.

可以想成沿著家族樹往上爬：先到爸媽那一層，再往上一層的那位男性長輩，就是你的 grandfather——你父親或母親的父親。

From the word’s history

The prefix grand- (from Old French) marks 'one generation further' in family words. So grand + father is 'a father one generation up' — a grandfather.

grand- 這個字首從古法語借來，在親屬稱謂裡表示『往上（或往下）多一個世代』。所以 grand ＋ father 就是『比父親再上一輩的父親』——祖父、外公。

etymonline.com/word/grand-; etymonline.com/word/grandfather

同家族的字

複數 grandfathers

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

grandfathernoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/

  • 1

    A father of someone's parent.

    • Grandfather, Father, and Son. The Father diſſeiſeth the Grandfather and dies, the Son endows the Mother, the Grandfather dies, the Son may enter upon the Mother; for he hath a new Right deſcended to him from the Grandfather, for the Grandfather might have entred upon the Mother, ſo ſhall his Heir.
    • Lineal conſanguinity is that which ſubſists between perſons, of whom one is deſcended in a direct line from the other: as between John Stiles (the propoſitus in the table of conſanguinity) and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and ſo upwards in the direct aſcending line; or between John Stiles and his ſon, grandſon, great-grandſon, and ſo downwards in the direct deſcending line.
  • 2

    A male forefather.

    • Brethren: Here is the pipe which your grandfathers used to smoke with when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship they had together.
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.

    • File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B.
    • Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.

grandfatherverb詞源 1/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/

  • 1

    To be, or act as, a grandfather to.

grandfatherverb詞源 2/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/

  • 1

    lawTo retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them).

    • Had the original work been permitted, it would be grandfathered into any code changes each time they occurred, Arvada officials said. The latest came in 2006.
    • Old power plants are sometimes grandfathered from having to meet new clean air requirements.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。