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# grandparent

noun (grandparent, grandparents)

«grandparent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A grandparent is a parent of your mother or father: your grandmother or your grandfather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#m1)
2. Your grandparents are both or all of them together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life grandparents often care for children, tell family stories and visit on holidays. In family-tree lessons, grandparents are two generations above you; each person usually has four grandparents. Words for them: grandma, gran, nan, nana, granny, grandpa, grandad, pop. Phrases: on my mum's side, great-grandparent.

### Examples

- My grandparents live by the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x1)
- Every child has four grandparents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x2)
- Gran is my favourite grandparent because she bakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x3)
- We visit our grandparents at Thanksgiving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x4)
- My grandparent on Dad's side came from Ireland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x5)
- Grandparents' Day is a special day at our school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x6)
- A great-grandparent is a parent of a grandparent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x7)
- She phones her grandparents every Sunday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x8)
- The sweet children rode on their hobby-horses through all the rooms when they came to see the grandparents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x9)

### Note

Countable: a grandparent, two grandparents. Written as one word. Grandmother = female, grandfather = male. Maths: if each parent has 2 parents, you have 2 x 2 = 4 grandparents and 8 great-grandparents.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grandparent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grandparent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grandparent.html) on Mova free.