grandfatherの意味・使い方・発音

grandfather

英 ['græn(d)fɑːðə] 美 ['græn'fɑðɚ]

grandfather (n.): early 15c., from grand- + father (n.), probably on analogy of French grand-père. Replaced grandsire and Old English ealdef?der. Grandfather clause originally (1899) referred to exemptions from post-Reconstruction voting restrictions (literacy, property tax) in the U.S. South for men whose forebears had had the right to vote before 1867 (thus allowing poor and illiterate whites to continue to vote). Grandfather clock is from 1894, originally grandfather's clock (1876), "a furniture dealer's name" [OED] from "My Grandfather's Clock," the 1876 song by Henry Clay Work that was enormously popular (and loathed) in late 1870s. It indicates that they were beginning to seem old-fashioned; they were previously known as tall case clocks or eight-day clocks.

1. He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.: 彼はそこに座って、床に落ちた大きな振り子時計の音を聞いていた。

2.My great- grandfather was a person of some importance here.: 私の曽祖父はここの顔だった。

3.My great- grandfather made horseshoes and nails and what have you.: 私の曽祖父は、馬の掌や鉄の釘などを打っていました。

4.Her great- grandfather had clearly been a dedicated and stoical traveller.: 彼女の曽祖父は明らかに没入的で根気強い旅行愛好家だった。