English Explanatory Dictionary

grandfather clock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A longcase clock.

Word forms

grandfather clock grandfather clocks

Etymology

From an 1876 song, Grandfather's Clock, by American songwriter Henry Work, based on a clock in the George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England, which stopped keeping time after its owner died.

Related words

grandmother clock floor clock
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