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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grandson
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ The armour he gifted to Auaralion, the great grandson of Morelion, Aenarion's son by Astarielle.
▪ Today, the Reichardt duck farm is run under the watchful eye of Jim Reichardt, great grandson of the original founder.
old
▪ Willie Greene, his 4-year-#old grandson, came to visit the ranch with a pocketful of marbles.
▪ The Rickels' five children and 18-year-#old grandson are supportive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was as if her grandson had saved her life with his gift.
▪ But suppose the paternal grandfather were dead when the eldest grandson was born?
▪ His grandson now lives in the house.
▪ If he proceeds from the Son, why do you not say he is the grandson of the Father?
▪ Sigistrix was, after all, the grandson of Theodoric.
▪ Television is different from the toy that Freud's grandson threw out of the pram.
▪ Willie Greene, his 4-year-old grandson, came to visit the ranch with a pocketful of marbles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandson

Grandson \Grand"son"\, n. A son's or daughter's son.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grandson

1580s, from grand + son.

Wiktionary
grandson

n. A son of one's child.

WordNet
grandson

n. a male grandchild

Wikipedia
Grandson (disambiguation)

Grandson may refer to:

  • Grandson (son of a child)
  • Grandson, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland
  • Grandson (district), a district in Switzerland
  • Battle of Grandson, part of the Burgundian Wars, fought near the Swiss municipality

Usage examples of "grandson".

Neoptolemos and his grandson are killed in this pointless blood feud, his line will end here in the Achaian age.

As secretary for the American commissioners, Franklin had selected his grandson, William Temple Franklin, a decision that did not please Adams, who thought John Thaxter better qualified.

The princess was on her way to the Riviera but promised to stop in Albania on her return in September, bringing with her a young grandson as a playmate for Nubar.

A feeble youth, the grandson of Clovis, reigned over the Austrasians or oriental Franks.

Mah-to-toh-pah, Four Bears, a fourteen-year-old grandson of the renowned Man on a Horse, was squatting in the pit under the eagle trap, watching up through the lattice of boughs toward the gray sky, when he thought he heard shouts from the camp of the Eagle Hunters.

Rather than accept the Pisan prebend right away, however, Galileo tried instead to reclaim the Brescian one, now that its incumbent had died, for his infant grandson.

Fed up with being ruled by a son of Mithridates and the grandson of his Pontic puppet, Gordius, the Cappadocians had been trying ever since Gaius Marius departed from Mazaca to find a truly Cappadocian king.

Not even a true nobleman, but the grandson of a Tusculan peasant on one side and the great-grandson of a Celtiberian slave on the other.

Sergei Volkonsky, the grandson of the Decembrist, recalled nameday parties that dragged on until dawn.

In 1899 he was employed by Prince Sergei Volkonsky, the grandson of the famous Decembrist, who had just been appointed by the Tsar as Director of the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg.

Earl of Montrose, Gerek Gunn fled the city of Edinburgh, his black stallion pounding beneath him and his deerhound, a great-great grandson of Dubh, running at his side.

Emily has been rescued from death by the grandson of General Denbigh, who sat with us in the house.

Denbigh, the grandson of General Denbigh, who was in parliament with me, is about to marry my little Emmy?

Dutch publishing dynasty of Elsevier or Elzevir, the namesake and grandson of the founder of the firm.

NICK STEFANOS parked his Wildcat in the alley behind a fastback Mustang, got a crate of tomatoes out of his trunk, and called through the screen door of the Three-Star before he and his grandson walked inside.