grandchildnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡræn.tʃaɪld/us/ˈɡræn.tʃaɪld/plural grandchildrenA2 the child of your son or daughter
Examples
- We love looking after our grandchild.
- I hope I live to see my grandchildren.
- She was looking forward to seeing the grandchildren again.
- She's got photographs of all her grandchildren on the mantelpiece.
- We've got two grandchildren - a three-year-old girl and a baby boy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- fatherhood
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- mom-and-pop
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
- your own flesh and blood idiom
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