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GRANDSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A male grandchild
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grandson" is a kind of...):
grandchild (a child of your son or daughter)
Context examples:
The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mr. Laurence and his grandson dined with them, also Mr. Brooke, at whom Jo glowered darkly, to Laurie's infinite amusement.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no children frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The old gentleman did not say much as he drank his four cups of tea, but he watched the young people, who soon chatted away like old friends, and the change in his grandson did not escape him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The old gentleman knew that perfectly well, and particularly desired to prevent it, for the mood in which he found his grandson assured him that it would not be wise to leave him to his own devices.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
