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# grandson

«grandson» in Mova's school dictionary: **the son of your son or daughter; a boy is the grandson of…** — 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 (a grandson, grandsons)

### meaning for a pupil

A grandson is the son of your son or daughter; a boy is the grandson of his grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in family trees and stories about families. A grandson is a grandchild; a girl is a granddaughter. In maths word problems about families and ages, grandsons and granddaughters are counted as grandchildren. Phrases: proud of her grandson, my eldest grandson.

### examples

- Grandma is proud of her grandson for winning the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x1)
- Mr Brown has three grandsons and two granddaughters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x2)
- Leo is the grandson of the old fisherman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x3)
- The farmer left the farm to his grandson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x4)
- Our neighbour's grandson visits every summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x5)
- Granddad took his grandson to the football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandson/#x6)

### note

One word, no hyphen. Plural grandsons. Female form: granddaughter (note the double d). «Grandchildren» covers both grandsons and granddaughters.

### In the corpora

- [Emma was dared to prank-call a random number; a grandma answered, frightened it was bad news about her grandson.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/28/)
- [Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/0/)
- [Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya's grandson, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/7/)
- [Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan conquered China and founded the Yuan dynasty, with his capital where Beijing is now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/13/)
- [onUk is grandson and onUka granddaughter, the granny's words for her grandchildren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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