Word.ws English Dictionary

grampers

grampers noun: grandfather.

Noun

grampers

  1. (informal) Grandfather.
    • My granny and grampers did it that way. Granny was a nurse, and Grampers started out a roofer; one day he sliced his foot on some metal flashing, and she gave him the tetanus shot. “Been a pain in my you-know-what ever since,” Grampers[…]2014 March 11, Sylvia Whitman, The Milk of Birds, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 124
    • He was my grampers, and I say who pays.' She tilted her head back a fraction. No one would have known that she had come here this morning a traitor and an exile. She had forgotten it herself. In that moment she wasn't even acting;[…]2016 May 5, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Black Arts, David Fickling Books, →ISBN

Origin of grampers

From gramp + -ers.

Questions about grampers

What does grampers mean?
Grampers means grandfather.
What part of speech is grampers?
Grampers is a noun.

Words near grampers in the dictionary

  1. gramp
  2. grampa
  3. grampappies
  4. grampappy
  5. grampas
  6. grampers
  7. Grampian
  8. Grampian Hills
  9. Grampians
  10. grampie
  11. grampies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grampers (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “grampers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/grampers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.