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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
granddaughter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ I've a five-year-#old granddaughter, and I'd have liked to show her the work.
▪ And no sign of the Old Arab's granddaughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.
▪ In late December, Jane Cheever brought his first granddaughter, two week old, to visit.
▪ It ends with her musing about buying a pink scarf because her granddaughter likes pink.
▪ Not even a plea from his six-year-old granddaughter to let Big Daddy go could free him.
▪ She doted on her granddaughter and had made her the red cape.
▪ Suppose that Sarah Payne were your daughter, niece, or granddaughter.
▪ The 60-year-old actor has two granddaughters, Rose, 5, and three-year-old Kim by daughter Ellie.
▪ You're the granddaughter of her - lover.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Granddaughter

Granddaughter \Grand"daugh"ter\, n. The daughter of one's son or daughter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
granddaughter

also grand daughter, 1610s, from grand (adj.) + daughter.

Wiktionary
granddaughter

alt. The daughter of someone's child. n. The daughter of someone's child.

WordNet
granddaughter

n. a female grandchild

Usage examples of "granddaughter".

Angele, who is Madame du Carron, and her granddaughter, Marie-Christine?

James returned to France in 1792, with her daughter-in-law, Lucette, also a French citizen by birth and the daughter of a silk merchant imprisoned at the time because of his counterrevolutionary sympathies, and her granddaughter, Angelique.

Sir Gilbert Derham, finding that his granddaughter associated with people in the world, and being applied to by Lord Maristow, was induced to withdraw Mrs.

Looking at the lovely Dorothea, granddaughter of one governor and now wife of another, Dolley smiled with satisfaction.

The two men talked a few minutes longer, and then Ben left, promising to return first thing tomorrow morning to see his granddaughter.

My splendid son Germanicus murdered, and my poor grandsons, Nero and Drusus and Gemellus murdered, and my daughter Livilla punished for her wickedness, her abominable wickedness, by my own hand-that was the worst pain I suffered, no mother ever suffered a worse- and my four granddaughters all gone to the bad, and this filthy impious Caligula.

And just like her goosecap of a granddaughter, flaunting her humble country origins.

Sister Meriam sacrifice herself in favor of keeping her granddaughter alive.

They may not see it as any advantage to have their daughters and granddaughters move into the lifeway followed by their counterparts in most other races.

The old Negress hastened to assure Heather that her granddaughter was well versed in the necessary skills.

If the ambassadors were instructed by any false brethren in the Byzantine history, they might produce three memorable examples of the violation of this imaginary law: the marriage of Leo, or rather of his father Constantine the Fourth, with the daughter of the king of the Chozars, the nuptials of the granddaughter of Romanus with a Bulgarian prince, and the union of Bertha of France or Italy with young Romanus, the son of Constantine Porphyrogenitus himself.

For all their plotting, the audience feels that the old woman is more malevolent than either son or granddaughter, and, after all, the son had worked hard on the home place and the granddaughter, slyboots as she was, undoubtedly was really kind.

When all had arrived, surrounded her feet, and looked up at her with that ethereal patience that seems to be the hallmark of cold-blooded animals, Lucy passed two bowls over to Leah and watched as her granddaughter fed the turtles raw hamburger and lettuce.

And old Shoanete listened and nodded her head in approval, watching from the corner of her yellowed eye as Tifari Amu sat modestly beside her tall granddaughter.

I make these bequests to Winston Harte as a gesture of my love, and because of his love, devotion, and uncommon loyalty to me over the years and because of his marriage to my granddaughter Emily, for the benefit of them both and any offsprings of their marriage.