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grand-child

grand-child is the obsolete form of grandchild.

Meaning of grandchild

Noun

grandchild (plural grandchildren)

  1. A child of someone's child.
    • ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food...1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl

Forms of grand-child

pluralgrand-children

Questions about grand-child

What is grand-child the obsolete form of?
Grand-child is the obsolete form of grandchild.

Words near grand-child in the dictionary

  1. Grand Île
  2. Grand'Anse
  3. grand-
  4. grand-aunt
  5. grand-aunts
  6. grand-child
  7. grand-children
  8. grand-daddies
  9. grand-daddiest
  10. grand-daddy
  11. grand-daughter

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