GRANDCHILD (grandchildren)

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Irregular inflected form: grandchildren   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandchild mean? 

• GRANDCHILD (noun)
  The noun GRANDCHILD has 1 sense:

1. a child of your son or daughter

  Familiarity information: GRANDCHILD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDCHILD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child of your son or daughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("grandchild" is a kind of...):

issue; offspring; progeny (the immediate descendants of a person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandchild"):

granddaughter (a female grandchild)

grandson (a male grandchild)

great grandchild (a child of your grandson or granddaughter)

 Context examples 

Sometimes there is no parent and grandparents raise grandchildren.

(Family Issues, NIH)

They are not at all nice children, in my opinion; but Mrs Musgrove seems to like them quite as well, if not better, than her grandchildren.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A disorder likely to occur in children and grandchildren of a woman treated with diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy.

(Diethylstilbestrol Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Demi, as the oldest grandchild, then presented the queen of the day with various gifts, so numerous that they were transported to the festive scene in a wheelbarrow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A male grandchild.

(Grandson, NCI Thesaurus)

A female grandchild.

(Granddaughter, NCI Thesaurus)

He was married to the second daughter of Sir James Ovington; and as I have seen three of his grandchildren within the week, I fancy that if any of Sir Lothian’s descendants have their eye upon the property, they are likely to be as disappointed as their ancestor was before them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An inherited condition marked by the following: (1) one or more first- or second-degree relatives (parent, sibling, child, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, or uncle) with malignant melanoma; (2) many moles, some of which are atypical (asymmetrical, raised, and/or different shades of tan, brown, black, or red) and often of different sizes; and (3) moles that have specific features when examined under a microscope.

(Familial Atypical Mole Melanoma Syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

He said, “they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms, as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)