grandparentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡræn.peə.rənt/us/ˈɡræn.per.ənt/A2 the father or mother of a person's father or mother
Examples
- The children are very attached to their grandparents.
- My paternal grandparents were Irish.
- His visits gave his grandparents such pleasure.
- The children usually stay with their grandparents for a week in the summer.
- Her parents died when she was a baby and she was raised by her grandparents.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- fatherhood
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- mom-and-pop
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
- your own flesh and blood idiom
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Examples from literature
- Are we prepared to give up meat every day and return to having it less frequently, like our grandparents did?
- He’s playing outside at his grandparents’ house.
- My grandparents’ house was only 100 meters from the beach.