Wiktionary
n. the father of one's father
Usage examples of "paternal grandfather".
Of course if you accept -- as I do -- the version according to which Jan Bronski was my father and the silent, increasingly eccentric Vincent Bronski my paternal grandfather, there was reason enough for the invitation.
He tapped a stylus on his blood-grained elacca wood desk, stared at an image of his paternal grandfather, Fondil III.
I have said that my paternal grandmother offered to receive us, and not my paternal grandfather, who was still alive.
The thing was: The disease, if they had it, had come to the brothers through their paternal grandmother, who was the second wife of their paternal grandfather, and who had only one child -- their father, the Ecuadorian sculptor and architect, Sebastian von Kleist.
Faces from his past scrolled across his mind, and he locked on to a memory of his paternal grandfather Kean Atreides gazing at him with expectation, his face a crease-map of his life experiences.
He had the insolent assurance of his paternal grandfather, Captain Rafer Hox-worth, plus the distinguished bearing that had characterized his maternal grandfather, Dr.
Her son was born the following summer, and Daran named him Cherek, in honor of his deceased paternal grandfather.