grandfather clock

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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.

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: staanhorlosie — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Arabic: سَاعَة جَدّ — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Armenian: ծանրուկավոր ժամացույց (canrukavor žamacʻuycʻ) — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Danish: bornholmerur — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Danish: standur — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Danish: diernæsklokke (from Diernæs, Funen) — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Faroese: bornholmaraur — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Finnish: kaappikello — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• French: pendule à balancier — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• German: Bodenstanduhr — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• German: Standuhr — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• German: Großvateruhr — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Hebrew: אוֹרְלוֹגִין (orlogín) — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Hungarian: állóóra — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Hungarian: (nagy / talpas / földön álló) ingaóra — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Korean: 괘종시계 (gwaejongsigye) — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Malay: jam besar berdiri — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Norman: hôlouoge dé grand-péthe — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Polish: zegar wahadłowy stojący — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Polish: zegar szafkowy — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Russian: хо́дики (xódiki) — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Scottish Gaelic: gleoc àrd — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Spanish: reloj de pie — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Swedish: golvur — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Welsh: cloc tad-cu — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock
• Welsh: clociau tad-cu — freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock