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单词 grandparent
释义 grandparent|ˈgrændpɛərənt|
[See grand a. 12 b.]
A parent of a parent.
1830in Booth Analyt. Dict.1868W. Whitman Poems 137 The white-haired Irish grand-parents.1875T. W. Higginson U.S. Hist. v. 31 Their grandparents had told them of a country far to the west.
So grandparentage, the state or condition of being a grandparent or of having grandparents.
1889Nature 24 Jan. 299/2 Families differently grouped according to their parentage and grandparentage.1896Daily News 10 Jan. 3/6 Such a life as might be expected from his grand-parentage.
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