| 单词 | grandfather-to-be |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrandfather-to-be That is yet to be or to come; future. Esp. following nouns of kinship, as grandfather-to-be, wife-to-be; see also s.v. mother-to-be n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > future or that is to come towardc888 tocomingOE futurec1374 unborn1598 to-be1609 unbred1609 hereaftera1616 succeeding1676 uprising1727 unarrived1745 will-be1802 unelapsed1805 unforegone1844 upcoming1879 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxxi. sig. Fv Toungs to be, your beeing shall rehearse. View more context for this quotation a1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 457 Marry..speedily, or the to be Mrs. Berry will have very little of your company. 1860 J. R. Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 102 The four to-be priests I knew before. 1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace lxix. 581 The excited grandfather-to-be. 1969 L. Hellman Unfinished Woman xii. 174 The so-called good life for us is the to-be-good life for them. 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key iii. 33 My wife-to-be is going to be fabulously successful. < as lemmas |
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