granddaughtern.
/ˈɡranˌdɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈɡrænˌdɔdər/, /ˈɡrænˌdɑdər/ 1.
a. A daughter of one's son or daughter.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandchild > [noun] > grand-daughter
daughter daughtera1382
niecea1387
granddaughter1608
grandgirl1872
1608 H. Fitzsimon Catholike Confut. 327 Yet you are not so farr gone M. Rider, as to allow marriage to be honorable betwixt mother and sonn, sister and brother, the grand-father and grand-dowghter.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings viii. 26 Athaliah the daughter of Omri [margin or granddaughter] . View more context for this quotation
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth Introd. 7 Lady Iane Grey, grand-daughter to the second sister of King Henry the eight.
a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) Pref. sig. A3 Bequeathed with a Purse of old Gold..as an House-Loom to her Grand-Daughter.
1727 in Mayflower Descendant (1908) 15 I Give to my Granddaughter Mary Bangs A pillow-coat.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xiii. 303 The tattling of his little Grand-Daughter, who [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 18 The grand-daughter married without consent.
1884 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 557 Her granddaughter has a vivid recollection of Mrs. Merivale in her later days.
1929 H. A. Vachell Virgin ix. 157 Fifty years hence the granddaughters of these rattlepates would be toeing the line.
1950 A. White Lost Traveller i. iii. 28 The only person for whom Frederick Batchelor had really put himself out was his granddaughter Clara.
2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 7 Apr. Grandmothers note with disapproval that teenage granddaughters can't even cook a meal, let alone plait a mat or weave a skirt!
b. The female offspring of the offspring of an animal, especially a horse. Cf. grandam n. 1b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > as grand-daughter
granddaughter1856
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 2) 284/1 Rachel, foaled in 1763, by Blank, son of Godolphin, and out of a grand-daughter of the same horse, is remarkable as being the dam of Highflyer by Herod, and Mark Anthony by Spectator.
1891 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/5 Kairouan, a grand-daughter of Hermit..won in a canter.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. d1 I recall he bred one horse to its own granddaughter..and got a runner.
1991 G. Haynes Mammoths, Mastodonts, & Elephants iii. 74 The original matriarch's much-reduced group (led by the original old female and one daughter or granddaughter, but including few or no equal-age cousins and younger sisters).
2014 Australian (Nexis) 17 Mar. 26 The Marks also race Let's Elope's granddaughter Let's Make Adeal, a progressive Red Ransom mare, which has finished behind an imported horses [sic] in five of its six most recent starts.
2. Nuclear Physics A daughter (daughter n. 8) of a daughter element, nucleus, isotope, etc. Frequently attributive.
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1941 Sci. News-Let. 2 Aug. 75/1 A minute portion of this material consists of the element uranium, together with traces of its daughter element, ionium, and its granddaughter element, radium.
1961 W. M. Gibson Radiochem. of Lead 115 Both the daughter and granddaughter activities reach equilibrium with the lead-212 within twelve hours after separation.
1980 R. Collé & P. E. McCall Radon in Buildings 13/2 The 218Po may be either attached or unattached when it decays to the granddaughter 214Pb.
2015 J. T. Shipman et al. Introd. Physical Sci. (ed. 14) x. 303/2 The daughter nucleus undergoes both beta and alpha decay. What is the ‘granddaughter’ nucleus in each case?
3. Short for granddaughter clock n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock
pendulum clock1663
pendule clock1664
pendulum1664
pendulum-piece1734
wag-at-the-wall1825
longcase clock1851
grandfather clock1883
trunk dial1884
grandfather1894
grandmother clock1898
longcase1899
granddaughter clock1926
grandmother1931
granddaughter1968
1968 R. Thomson Antique Amer. Clocks & Watches iii. 80 The New England tall clock reached the pinnacle of development about 1810... On the right is a miniature (or ‘granddaughter’) in the same style.
2014 Blackmore Vale Mag. (Nexis) 7 Mar. 442 The term granddaughter seems to be a clock smaller than 5ft; grandmother over 5ft and over 6ft is a grandfather which can be as high as 8.6 ft plus.
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C1. Biology and Medicine.
a. attributive. Designating a cyst formed from a daughter cyst (daughter cyst n. at daughter n. Compounds 3) of a hydatid.
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1857 E. Lankester tr. G. F. Küchenmeister On Animal & Veg. Parasites Human Body I. 182 That this case refers to an Echinococcus will be admitted by every one who has ever seen one with daughter- and granddaughter-vesicles [Ger. Tochter- und Enkelblasen] of every grade of development.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1118 Such cysts..may give rise to a numerous progeny of daughter or even granddaughter bladders.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxix. 453 Tertiary or grand-daughter cysts may similarly develop.
2011 K. Gill & D. J. Deziel in J. M. Velasco et al. Rush Univ. Med. Center Rev. Surg. xxiii. 332/2 CT and ultrasound may demonstrate characteristic daughter cysts (hydatid sand) or granddaughter cysts (rosette appearance) within the cyst.
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granddaughter cell n. [after German Enkelzelle (1847 or earlier)] a cell derived from a daughter cell by a single division.
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1872 W. C. Kloman & F. T. Miles tr. E. Rindfleisch Text-bk. Pathol. Histology 564 The cartilage-cells divide, and as a rule, the division is twice repeated, namely, with the daughter and granddaughter cells [Ger. Tochter- und Enkelzellen].
1909 Bot. Gaz. 48 201 The term ‘macrospore’ or ‘megaspore’ is frequently loosely used..in reference to the cell which develops into the embryo sac, whether it be the young embryo sac itself, or one of the daughter cells, or one of four granddaughter cells.
2010 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 43 774 Spermatogenesis and ovogenesis were parallel processes containing two maturation divisions and the production of two daughter and four granddaughter cells.
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granddaughter clock n. a clock similar to, but smaller than, a grandfather clock.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock
pendulum clock1663
pendule clock1664
pendulum1664
pendulum-piece1734
wag-at-the-wall1825
longcase clock1851
grandfather clock1883
trunk dial1884
grandfather1894
grandmother clock1898
longcase1899
granddaughter clock1926
grandmother1931
granddaughter1968
1926 Scotsman 15 May 12/8 Grandfather and Granddaughter Clocks, Gramophones, Beds and Bedding.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 385/2 Granddaughter-clock, a long-case clock about 3½ ft. high, with movement usually provided with lever escapement; a grandfather-clock in miniature.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 83 Grand-daughter clock, modern clock of grandfather style standing under about 4 ft. 6 in. high.
2014 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Classified) 1 A variety of clocks including a mahogany granddaughter clock, and vintage goods including a barber's chair.
granddaughter-in-law n. the wife of one's grandchild.
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1682 H. Keepe Monumenta Westmonasteriensia 71 (margin) Philippa, Dutchess of York, Grand-daughter-in-law to King Edw. III.
1750 T. Short New Observ. Bills Mortality 258 Besides his Sons 12 Wives, Simeon's Concubine, and 2 Grand-daughters in Law, in all 86.
1835 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. 2 97 A man cannot marry his grandmother, mother,..grand-daughter-in-law, [etc.].
1936 Biddeford (Maine) Daily Jrnl. 15 May 7/3 He was quite blissfully unaware that his grand-daughter-in-law considered him a nuisance.
2011 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 8/7 The Queen, who is known for her thriftiness, is to gain a granddaughter-in-law close to her heart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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