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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grandchild
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Four surviving children, 12 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchildren helped mark the milestone in style.
▪ If relatives survive they would be great, great, grandchildren of General Maude.
▪ Tonight the seventy eight year old's being comforted by her great grandchildren.
▪ Tomorrow a big party is being held for friends, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
■ VERB
see
▪ With 12 months to live, it's his only chance of seeing his grandchildren again.
▪ And yet I think I would like to be around to see grandchildren and to live to be a funny old man.
▪ Annie has become the subject of her daughter-in-law's revenge by being forced to pay her money to see her grandchild.
▪ But you want to live to see your fifth grandchild, I think?
tell
▪ You can imagine him telling it to his grandchildren.
▪ You can cross George Bush and live to tell your grandchildren about it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And his grandchildren will transfer to inferior schools.
▪ I was the fifth grandchild, and as there were seven more after me, I stayed familiar with the tarantella.
▪ Maria had lived to see the birth of twenty grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
▪ Married with three children and several grandchildren, John Ryan now lives and works in Rye, Sussex.
▪ Most of the dough is funneled into a trust fund for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
▪ Nowadays my grandchildren come here for the same family festival.
▪ Sixty-seven people were killed, including her son-in-law and three grandchildren.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandchild

Grandchild \Grand"child"\, n. A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grandchild

1580s, graundchilde, from grand (adj.) + child. Related: Grandchildren.

Wiktionary
grandchild

n. A child of someone's child.

WordNet
grandchild
  1. n. a child of your son or daughter

  2. [also: grandchildren (pl)]

Usage examples of "grandchild".

If a grandchild wrote to him, Adams responded at once, always affectionately and very often with a measure of guiding philosophy drawn from experience.

Weeks later the Adamses learned of the death of another grandchild, Louisa Catherine Adams, who had been born in Russia little more than a year before.

When it was said he deserved to be known as the father of the American navy, Adams answered that he was father of enough as it was, with two sons, fourteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren, all of whom required his attention and support.

The world their grandchildren knew could give no adequate idea of the times he and Adams had known.

Usually a woman passes her skills on to her children and grandchildren but Fralie has no time, and not much interest in working leather -- she likes stitching and beadwork -- and she has no daughters.

Emma saw Blackie standing to one side, away from the large group of people, talking to her two youngest grandchildren, Amanda and Francesca.

There is no better blood in France than that of the de Mauprats of Chambery, and the grandchild of my friend, her father being also of good Norman blood, was worthy to be the wife of any prince in Europe.

The children were those of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and of those who had joined her in the trek from Chiriqui and been mustered into her service.

He would soon marry, thought Dolley, and bless her with armfuls of grandchildren.

As a third child, Firebird could expect to live until Queen Siwann had two grandchildren, but a Wastling who made too much trouble could be disposed of early.

Is the fastidious, the impartial, the non-moral novelist only the grandchild, and not the remote posterity, of Dickens, who would not leave Scrooge to his egoism, or Gradgrind to his facts, or Mercy Pecksniff to her absurdity, or Dombey to his pride?

In the coffee houses, Finn found a great clamouring of people ready to pay twenty or thirty shillings for a portrait, because they believed in the future again and could even foresee a time when these same portraits would hang in the houses of their grandchildren on grander walls than any they would ever live to own.

She was grandchild to Eleanor Hadfield, an aged woman, who was reputed as a witch by my father and his set, for no other reason, that I can make out, than her scorn, dignity, and fearlessness of rancour.

Any child resulting from that union is then technically the heterozygous grandchild of both clans.

Lady Hsin, who had dutifully invited others to see me, her orphaned grandchild.