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Chinese dictionary
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n.grandfather
外祖
maternal grandfather
伯祖
grandfather's brother
祖父
grandfather
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n.ancestor; forefathers
高祖
great grandfather
远祖
remote ancestor
始祖
first ancestor
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n.originator; founder (of a craft, religious sect, etc.)
鼻祖
originator of a theory or tradition
祖师
founder of a religious sect
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n.Zu, a surname
Words and phrases with 祖
- 祖鲁语[word]Zulu
- 祖荫[word]ancestors' protection or blessing
- 祖师[word]the founder of a school of learning, a craft, religious, profession, etc.
- 祖国[word]motherland
- 祖妣[word]one's deceased grandmother
- 祖代[word]generations
- 祖居[word]ancestral home; have lived somewhere for generations
- 祖先[word]ancestry; biologically ancestral form
- 祖籍[word]original family home
- 祖传秘方[idiom]secret prescription handed down in the family from generation to generation
- 祖祖辈辈[idiom]generations