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Definition of Grandparent

1. Noun. A parent of your father or mother.

Definition of Grandparent

1. Noun. the parent of someone's parent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grandparent

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandparent

Literary usage of Grandparent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"Liability —grandparent— Poverty —Offer of Maintenance in Family.—In an 188. ... Liability — Estate of Deceased grandparent—Stat. 1491 ch. 25. ..."

2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1836)
"... branch of the grandparent's stock. The principle on which the rule is founded, is, that collateral kindred, claiming through the nearest ancestor, ..."

3. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"Instead we do a left rotation at the new node's grandparent, resulting in the node with value 2 now being the root, with the 1 on its left and the 3 on its ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Domicil, National, Quasi-national, and Municipal by Michael William Jacobs (1887)
"... and follows the domicil of the parent who recognizes him.2 § 245. Upon the Death of both Parents, an Infant may acquire the Domicil of a grandparent ..."

5. The Road to an Aging Policy for the 21st Century: 1995 White House edited by Gabriella Cantoni (1998)
"Provide financial, social, and legal supports as needed to grandparent caregivers ... Remove legal and administrative barriers to grandparent caregivers for ..."

6. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"It may therefore happen that some of the individual characters of the grandparent may reappear in the grandchild, although there may be no general ..."

7. The Black Population in the U. S.: A Statistical Profile (1994)
"Children living in grandparent households. Since 1970, the proportion of children living with their grandparents has increased, from 3 to 12 percent for ..."

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