grandancestor

English

Etymology

From grand- +‎ ancestor.

Noun

grandancestor (plural grandancestors)

1. (rare) A distant ancestor.

   Synonym: (humorous or nonstandard) grandcestor

   • 1898, E[gbert] A[mericus] Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement or Norfolk’s Foundation Builders and Their Family Genealogies, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, […], page 396:

     In concluding this sketch, it affords the writer much pleasure to state that the time-stained pages of the old record shows not a single case of theft, petit larceny, forgery or perjury on the part of the grandancestors of our old Norfolk families.

   • 1980, Dory Previn, Bog-Trotter: An Autobiography with Lyrics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 126:

     One more thing then I’ll stop dear parents on your mountaintop I and my fellow animal-creatures down here in the swamp are as closely related to the extraterrestrials over your heads as the rats to the stars and beyond where ancient grandancestors call the tune of the words of the singer I would croon if I had the cords […]

   • 2006, Andrea Lee, Lost Hearts in Italy, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 190:

     Nick takes a stick and pushes it into the sand of a blue-and-white vase so that the strand of smoke drifts up toward a portrait of some of Poppy’s grandancestors, stiff in Qing Dynasty brocades, as flat and anonymous and ornate as Elizabethan portraits.