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GRANDCHILD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: grandchildren   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child of your son or daughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("grandchild" is a kind of...):

issue; offspring; progeny (the immediate descendants of a person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandchild"):

granddaughter (a female grandchild)

grandson (a male grandchild)

great grandchild (a child of your grandson or granddaughter)

Credits