grandsonn.
/ˈɡran(d)sʌn/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)ˌsən/ 1. A son's or daughter's son.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandchild > [noun] > grandson
neveeOE
daughter sonOE
nephewc1325
nepotea1525
little son1570
grandson1573
neposa1600
petty-son1611
grandboy1837
1573 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte ii. sig. Hiii Augustus hanged in his bedde chamber the picture of his graundsonne [L. nepotis] beinge a childe of him dearlye beloued.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xi. 43 Alcæus Grand-sonne searching long the Thefts he could not finde.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 293 Hee confined his onely Grand-sonne Agrippa Posthumus into the Iland Planasia.
1655 E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 280 Which only hath bin obstructed by my grandsonnes treachery.
1735 Lord Carteret Let. 6 Mar. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) III. 203 These works shall be the first foundation of the libraries of my three grandsons.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 193 Stephen..was indeed the grandson of the conqueror, by Adelicia his daughter.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 24 She expected a little grandson also.
1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. iv. 57 Sons or grandsons of half-wild fen-slodgers.
1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. ii. 26 Grandfather and grandson dined together.
1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 81 Her preoccupation with her grandson at a time when her son was so much in need of consolation.
1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six xxxii. 587 John arrived just in time to see his wife hand his newly re-diapered grandson to his daughter.
2012 Daily Tel. 5 July 3/1 The Queen will officially install her grandson as a Knight of the Thistle.
2. The male offspring of the offspring of an animal, especially a horse. Cf. grandsire n. 1b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > grandson
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1790 J. Weatherby Racing Cal. 17 384 Sons and grandsons of the Godolphin and Darley Arabians.
1821 Sporting Mag. Apr. 40/1 The next favourite at Barton was Diomed, a grandson of King Herod, a powerful horse, and a good runner.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/1 The Darley Arabian's line is represented..through his son Flying Childers, his grandsons Blaze and Snip, and his great-grandson Snap.
1976 R. M. Denhardt Found. Sires of Amer. Quarter Horse (1995) v. 110 Hill Top was foaled in 1925 and was sired by a grandson of Sam King by Hondo and out of Loma by Sam King.
2014 M. Greene Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing 69 A grandson of Discovery, Native Dancer raced for Alfred G. Venderbilt's Sagamore Farm.
Compounds
grandson-in-law n. the husband of one's grandchild.
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1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 728/1 The possession of this Castle and Mannour returned to her grandson-in Law, scil. Sir William de Clinton Knight.
1764 London Mag. May 271/2 Grand treasurer of Lithuania, grand son-in-law to prince Czartorinski high chancellor of Lithuania.
1820 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 23 Feb. One part of the house was occupied by the owner, who is 93 years of age and very decrepid, and the other part by Mr. Jonathan Holt, his grandson-in-law.
1922 Illus. London News 28 Jan. 128/2 I have heard that Queen Alexandra has offered the loan of Marlborough House to her granddaughter and grandson-in-law.
1997 New York 15 Dec. 52/2 His grandson-in-law now runs the business, which sells wholesale at its Ninth Avenue location.
Derivatives
ˈgrandsonship n.
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1851 F. Trollope Mrs. Mathews III. xx. 295 ‘I don't believe that the huge fellow is Mr. Mathews's son,’ said Herbert; ‘nor do I see why the grandsonship might not arise from the mother of the young man.’
1914 W. De Morgan When Ghost meets Ghost ii. iv. 468 The end came with an attestation of affectionate grandsonship.
1998 M. Sternberg Hebrews Between Cultures v. 335 Likewise, possibly, with his adoptive grandsonship. Mose the grandson of Raamses would be another feather in the narrator's cap as a master of interlinguistic wordplay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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