grandfather clock

English

A longcase clock

Alternative forms

grandfather's clock

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.

Noun

grandfather clock (plural grandfather clocks)

1. A longcase clock.

Related terms

• grandmother clock

Translations

freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock

• Afrikaans: staanhorlosie
• Arabic: سَاعَة جَدّ f (sāʕa(t) jadd)
• Armenian: ծանրուկավոր ժամացույց (canrukavor žamacʻuycʻ)
• Danish: bornholmerur n (generic term or from Bornholm), standur n, diernæsklokke c (from Diernæs, Funen) (rare)
• Faroese: bornholmaraur n
• Finnish: kaappikello (fi)
• French: pendule à balancier f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bodenstanduhr f, Standuhr (de) f, Großvateruhr f
• Hebrew: אוֹרְלוֹגִין (he) m (orlogín)
• Hungarian: állóóra (hu), (nagy / talpas / földön álló) ingaóra (hu)
• Korean: 괘종시계(掛鐘時計) (ko) (gwaejongsigye)
• Malay: jam besar berdiri
• Norman: hôlouoge dé grand-péthe f
• Polish: zegar wahadłowy stojący m, zegar szafkowy m
• Russian: хо́дики (ru) pl (xódiki)
• Scottish Gaelic: gleoc àrd m
• Spanish: reloj de pie m
• Swedish: golvur (sv) n
• Welsh: cloc tad-cu m, clociau tad-cu m pl

See also

• floor clock