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单词 grandparent
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grandparent

(grænpeərənt)
Word forms: plural grandparents
countable noun [usually plural, oft poss NOUN]
Your grandparents are the parents of your father or mother.
Tammy was raised by her grandparents.

grandparent in British English

(ˈɡrænˌpɛərənt, ˈɡrænd-)
noun
the father or mother of either of one's parents

grandparent in American English

(ˈgrændˌpɛrənt; ˈgrænˌpɛrənt)
noun
a grandfather or grandmother

Examples of 'grandparent' in a sentence
grandparent

How would these people feel if that was their mother or father or grandparent?
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Education in the internet age cannot now be left only to parents, grandparents and teachers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Regular savings accounts This is the plain vanilla option and the one most favoured by parents and grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Tell your brother that he should think about his son, who is missing out by not seeing his grandparents.
The Sun (2016)
They would often reach back into the lives of their own parents and grandparents, dropping in insights about life and love.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I'd witness year after year that feeling of loss within my father and grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Young people are different in many ways from their parents and grandparents at a similarage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
 Fathers and grandparents should have legal rights.
The Sun (2011)
 One deceived his grandparents into giving him cash for his phone bills.
The Sun (2008)
She literally had to be physically supported by her mother and grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They grew up knowing the values of their parents and grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Grandparents are the ones with whom adolescents feel able to discuss their plans for their future.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
His grandparents still live in the city.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
After treatment he was returned to live with his mother and grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
His grandparents live in the same street.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
For a time he lived with his grandparents and an aunt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
How much time can parents reasonably expect grandparents to give?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He insists more must be done for fathers and grandparents who are often completely cut off from their grandchildren.
The Sun (2011)
His mother and grandparents also worked for the club, for the family needed all four incomes.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
POLICE are recruiting grandparents and mothers in a bid to snare speeding drivers.
The Sun (2015)
 My grandparents are really religious, so it's almost a connection to home and to them.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It means parents and grandparents can leave homes worth up to 1million entirely tax-free to younger generations.
The Sun (2015)
The mothers, fathers, grandparents and uncles talked.
Charles Glass The Tribes Triumphant (2006)
I had drunk in that pub dozens of times; it was next door to my grandparents' home.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
grandparent

British English: grandparent NOUN
Your grandparents are the parents of your father or mother.
She was raised by her grandparents.
  • American English: grandparent
  • Brazilian Portuguese: avós
  • Chinese: 祖父 母/外祖父 母
  • European Spanish: abuelos
  • French: grand-parent
  • German: Großelternteil
  • Italian: nonni
  • Japanese: 祖父母
  • Korean: 조부모
  • European Portuguese: avós
  • Latin American Spanish: abuelos
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