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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
- 祖代[word]generations
- 祖饯[word]give a farewell dinner
- 祖龙[word]archosaur
- 祖母[word]grandmother
- 祖孙[word]grandparent and grandchild
- 祖师[word]the founder of a school of learning, a craft, religious, profession, etc.
- 祖率[word]Zu's ratio
- 祖鲁语[word]Zulu
- 祖居[word]ancestral home; have lived somewhere for generations
- 祖祖辈辈[idiom]generations
- 祖传秘方[idiom]secret prescription handed down in the family from generation to generation