GRANDPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandpa mean? 

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

1. the father of your father or mother

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The father of your father or mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gramps; grandad; granddad; granddaddy; grandfather; grandpa

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

grandparent (a parent of your father or mother)

 Context examples 

Couldn't you satisfy your grandpa in any other way?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I say he may come, and his grandpa, too, if he likes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Grandpa has set his heart upon it, your people like it, and I can't get on without you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I'll do it by proxy, when your grandpa comes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His grandpa does not know what's good for him, and keeps him shut up all alone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I didn't know that, he forgot, I suppose, and, as your grandpa was poorly, I didn't like to worry him by asking, though I did want some.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Before he could more, a bell rang, and Jo flew up, exclaiming with alarm, "Mercy me! It's your grandpa!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Grandpa does sometimes, but my books don't interest him, and I hate to ask Brooke all the time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Bad boy, be quiet! Sit down and think of your own sins, don't go making me add to mine. If I get your grandpa to apologize for the shaking, will you give up running away?" asked Jo seriously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Only what your grandpa told us about him, how he took good care of his own mother till she died, and wouldn't go abroad as tutor to some nice person because he wouldn't leave her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)