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grandchild

/ˌgræn(d)ˈtʃaɪld/
/ˈgræntʃaɪld/
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Other forms: grandchildren

If you have a grandparent, you are a grandchild. You are the grandchild of your mother’s and father’s parents. If you have a grandchild, your son or daughter had a baby. Congratulations.

A person becomes a grandparent when their kid has their first baby, and that baby is the grandparent’s grandchild. Boys are often called "grandsons," and girls "granddaughters," but both are also grandchildren. Grandchild uses the family or genealogical sense of the prefix grand-, which first meant "a generation older than," and since Elizabethan times has also meant "a generation younger than."

Definitions of grandchild
  1. noun
    a child of your son or daughter
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    types:
    granddaughter
    a female grandchild
    grandson
    a male grandchild
    great grandchild
    a child of your grandson or granddaughter
    great granddaughter
    a daughter of your grandson or granddaughter
    great grandson
    a son of your grandson or granddaughter
    type of:
    issue, offspring, progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
Pronunciation
US
/ˌgræn(d)ˈtʃaɪld/
UK
/ˈgræntʃaɪld/
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