grandparent

See also: grand-parent

English

Alternative forms

• grand-parent

Etymology

From grand- +‎ parent. Compare French grand-parent.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)pæɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

grandparent (plural grandparents)

1. The parent of someone's parent.
   • 2020 January 16, Scottie Andrew, “An orphaned teen is being forced out of his grandparents’ senior community because he’s too young”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A 15-year-old orphan is being forced from the Arizona senior community where he lives with his grandparents after the homeowner’s association said it could face legal issues if he stayed.

   • 2021 October 8, Maggie Fox, “Covid-19 has taken the parents or grandparents of 140,000 US children, and minorities were hit harder”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     More than 140,000 US children have lost a parent or grandparent who takes care of them to Covid-19, CDC researchers reported Thursday, which is as many as one in 500 US kids.

Antonyms

• (with regard to ancestry): grandchild

Hyponyms

• (by grandparent's gender): grandmother, grandfather
• (by grandparent's and parent's genders): maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather

Derived terms

• co-grandparent
• grandparental
• grandparenthood
• grandparentless
• great grandparent
• great-grandparent
• great-great-grandparent
• great great grandparent
• stepgrandparent

Translations

parent of one's parent

• Arabic: جَدّ (ar) m (jadd) (grandfather), جَدَّة (ar) f (jadda) (grandmother)

  Egyptian Arabic: جد m (ged), جدة f (geda)

• Asturian: güelu (ast) m, güela (ast) f
• Chichewa: gogo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 祖父母 (zou² fu⁶ mou⁵), 公公婆婆 (gung¹ gung¹ po⁴ po^4-2) (maternal), 爺爺嫲嫲 / 爷爷嫲嫲 (je⁴ je⁴ maa⁴ maa⁴) (paternal)

  Mandarin: 祖父母 (zh) (zǔfùmǔ)

• Czech: prarodič (cs)
• Dutch: grootouder (nl) m
• Finnish: isovanhempi (fi)
• French: grand-parent (fr) m, aïeul (fr) m, aïeule (fr) f
• Galician: avós m pl (plural only)
• German: Großeltern (de) pl (plural only), Großelternteil (de) m
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: (grandfather) ^{(please verify)} taita guasu, (grandmother) ^{(please verify)} jarýi (gn)

• Hawaiian: kupuna
• Hungarian: nagyszülő (hu)
• Ido: avo (io)
• Indonesian: kakek (id) (grandfather), nenek (id) (grandmother)
• Interlingua: (grandfather) granpatre, (grandmother) granmatre (ia)
• Irish: seantuismitheoir m
• Italian: (grandfather) nonno (it), (grandmother) nonna (it)
• Japanese: 祖父母 (ja) (そふぼ, sofubo)
• Khmer: យាយតា (yeay tar)
• Korean: 조부모(祖父母) (ko) (jobumo)
• Laboya: wede
• Latvian: vecvecāki m pl (mostly used in pl)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Grootöllern (nds) pl (plural only)

  Westphalian: Chrautellern pl (plural only)

• Macedonian: де́до (mk) m (dédo) (grandfather), ба́ба (mk) f (bába) (grandmother)
• Malay: datuk nenek

  Brunei Malay: nini

• Mandar: kanneq
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: besteforelder (no) m (mostly used in pl)

  Nynorsk: besteforelder m (mostly used in pl)

• Pennsylvania German: Groosseldre pl
• Polish: dziadkowie (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: avós (pt) m pl (plural only), (grandfather) avô (pt) m, (grandmother) avó (pt) f
• Quechua: awki
• Russian: де́душка (ru) m (déduška)， дед (ru) m (ded) (grandfather), ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), ба́ба (ru) f (bába) (grandmother)
• Scottish Gaelic: seann-phàrant m
• Spanish: abuelo (es) m, abuela (es) f
• Swedish: no equivalent term in Swedish, but see far- eller morförälder (literally “father's or mother's parent”) and far- och morförälder (literally “father's and mother's parent”); see also farfar (sv), farmor (sv), morfar (sv), mormor (sv).
• Tok Pisin: tumbuna
• Tokelauan: tupuna
• Tongan: kui
• Tupinambá: amỹîa (grandfather; t-, t-)
• Volapük: lepal (vo)
• Yiddish: זיידע־באָבע pl (zeyde-bobe), באָבע־זיידע pl (bobe-zeyde)

See also

• mother
• father

Verb

grandparent (third-person singular simple present grandparents, present participle grandparenting, simple past and past participle grandparented)

1. Synonym of grandfather.