Synonyms for grandparent
ˈgrænˌpɛər ənt, -ˌpær-, ˈgrænd-grand·par·ent

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1. grandparentnoun

   Antonyms:
   grandchild

2. grandparentnoun

   Antonyms:
   grandchild

Princeton's WordNet

1. grandparentnoun

   a parent of your father or mother

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1. • Forebear

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1. grandparentnoun

   Associated words:
   aval

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1. List of paraphrases for "grandparent":

   grandfather

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How to use grandparent in a sentence?

1. Antony Blinken:

   Casualties are often reduced to numbers. But behind every number is a human being -- a daughter, a son, a father, a mother, a grandparent, a best friend. And as the Talmud teaches, to lose a life is to lose the while world, whether that life is Palestinian or Israeli.

2. Adam Pertman:

   The best practice is to keep the kid as close to home as possible, in the middle of a war like this, you can't know whether one of the parents is alive -- whether there's a grandparent, an aunt, a cousin. You do a due diligence search for the people who already know the child.

3. Christopher Andersen:

   I was able to trace this back to a comment that was made by Prince Charles to [Duchess] Camilla on the day that the announcement of Harry and Meghan’s engagement was made, and what he did was casually turn to her like any grandparent to be would do and say, ‘I wonder what their children will look like, hair color, eye color, complexion.’.

4. Suzanne Dodd:

   I describe Voyager as a grandparent of the missions that have flown since.

5. Katie Couric:

   [I]f I want to talk to someone, for half an hour, even 45 minutes, an hour about gun violence and why nothing has been done to reduce gun violence in this country, I can do it. I’m 65 years old, I’m the boss of me, I run my own show and I can speak out about the need for sensible gun laws, and I can be an activist, and everyone should be an activist before they have a fourth grader killed in his or her class or before they have a grandparent killed buying a quarter of milk, right?