grandchild

A2
US /ˈgrændˌtʃaɪld/
noun Freq #12532

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A child of someone's child.

    ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.

  2. 2
    noun

    a child of your son or daughter

Etymology

From grand- + child.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a child of someone's child. grandbairngrandkidgrandoffspringgrandweanoe
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