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grandchildren

grandchildren is the plural 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

Phrases with grandchildren

Questions about grandchildren

What is grandchildren the plural of?
Grandchildren is the plural of grandchild.

Words near grandchildren in the dictionary

  1. grandchild
  2. grandchildhood
  3. grandchildhoods
  4. grandchildless
  5. grandchildlessness
  6. grandchildren
  7. grandcousin
  8. grandcousins
  9. granddad
  10. granddaddies
  11. granddaddiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grandchildren (page history and authors); grandchild (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.

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