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# grandparent

«grandparent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a parent of your mother or father: your grandmother or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grandparent, grandparents)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A grandparent is a parent of your mother or father: your grandmother or your grandfather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#m1)

2) Your grandparents are both or all of them together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x1)
- Every child has four grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x2)
- Gran is my favourite grandparent because she bakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x3)
- We visit our grandparents at Thanksgiving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x4)
- My grandparent on Dad's side came from Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x5)
- Grandparents' Day is a special day at our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x6)
- A great-grandparent is a parent of a grandparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/#x7)
- She phones her grandparents every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/15/)
- [When a grandparent is "slowing down", they may need more help, more doctor visits and more company from their family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/14/)
- ["chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/15/)
- [Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/15/)
- [Parents, carers, grandparents, teachers, school nurses and coaches can be trusted adults.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grandparent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandparent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.