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Definition: Grandson |
GrandsonNoun1. A male grandchild. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grandson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (September 9, 1492 - May 4, 1519), Duke of Urbino, grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent; Machiavelli's The Prince was dedicated to him.His daughter Caterina, a baby at the time of his death, went on to become Catherine de' Medici, the famous wife of Henry II of France, in a marriage arranged by her distant cousin, Pope Clement VII in his last successful move.
His tomb in the Medici chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo is ornamented with the Twilight and Dawn of Michelangelo, along with a statue of Lorenzo by Michaelangelo. Due to the identical name he shares with his grandfather (they are both Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici), whose tomb is also in the Medici chapel, this tomb is often mistaken for that of his grandfather.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lorenzo II de' Medici."
Crosswords: Grandson |
| English words defined with "grandson": Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley ♦ Ford ♦ Great-grandchild, Great-granddaughter, Great-grandson, Guarneri, Guarnerius, Guarnieri, Guiseppe Guarneri ♦ Henry Ford II, Huxley ♦ Kaiser Wilhelm, Kubla Khan, Kublai Kaan, Kublai Khan ♦ Louis XV ♦ Ninigi, Ninigino-Mikoto ♦ O' ♦ Spindle side ♦ War of the Spanish Succession, Wilhelm II. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grandson": Acherontian Books, Achish, Agrippa I., Ard, Arundelian Marbles ♦ Bered ♦ Cottonian Library ♦ Doson ♦ Elkanah ♦ Fenians ♦ Hul ♦ Jacobites, Jahath, Jeush ♦ Kenaz ♦ Little Dauphin, Lochiel ♦ Melech ♦ Nergal-sharezer ♦ Orange Lilies ♦ Parviz', Pelatiah ♦ Shaphan, Shatton. (references) |
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Screenplays | Although the circumstances indicate that he is your grandson, we cant prove it. Of course, we, erm, might be able to do so if we could do some tests (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Robert Towne) Call me when your grandson is born (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) I've got a husband, a grandson, and a boarding house full of people to be responsible for. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha) My grandson Fredrick has made some grand accomplishment to science (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
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 | Photo #1 - Three generations of fishermen - father, grandfather, and grandson share the surf and sun at Cape Hatteras. Credit: Fisheries. |  | President Clinton meets 101-year-old World War II Gold Star Mother Winifred F. Lancy, from Plantation, Fla., at the National World War II Memorial Ground Breaking Ceremony in Washington D.C., Nov. 11. Escorting Lancy is her grandson, Senior Master Sgt. Ch. |
 | President Wilson leaves tonight for Northampton, Mass., to visit his grandson, for whom he carries a number of gifts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Martyrs to duty. An ardent pacifist watching his ten-year-old grandson having a fight ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Typical Kentucky mountaineer home--70 year-old grandfather cooking his Red Cross bacon over the fire for himself and grandson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Calvin Brown, wife of FSA(Farm Security Administration) borrower, with grandson in garden near Eaton, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mountaineer who reared his grandson in his home with the help of the neighbors. He had been crippled with arthritis most of his life. On the steps of a schoolhouse with his dog on South Fork of Kentucky River. Breathitt County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Brown and grandson on the steps of their house near Eaton, Colorado. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old Negro farmer and his grandson, near Greensboro, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, and entertaining her grandson of five at the same time. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Down on the Farm" by Chris Turner Commentary: "Poppa and grandson off to work on the farm." | "Before or after?" by Lennart Jireland Commentary: "Anather grandson of mine.Use itbut credit me." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | I don't know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
Victor Hugo | There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was his grandson. |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | The Islamic Research Center expressed its objections in April to the script of a play entitled "Ali the Martyr" (about the death of the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed), which had been submitted by the play's producer. (references) |
Economic History | Andorra | In the 800s, Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, named the Count of Urgel as overlord of Andorra. (references) |
Ethiopia | When Menelik II died, his grandson, Lij Iyassu, succeeded to the throne but soon lost support because of his Muslim ties. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | In March 2000, a woman of African descent, Elisa Souza de Melgarejo, and her grandson were assaulted verbally in a supermarket. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Right here in our Nation's Capital, a brave young man named Jason White, a policeman, the son and grandson of policemen, is ruthlessly gunned down. |
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| "Grandson" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.47% of the time. "Grandson" is used about 583 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.47% | 504 | 11,979 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.53% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Total | 100.00% | 583 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "grandson": great grandson. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "grandson": great-great-grandson. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grandson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kleinseun. (various references) | |
Albanian | nip (grandchild, nephew). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفيد (grandchild). (various references) | |
Asturian | ñetu. (various references) | |
Aymara | allchhi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | issohko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | внук (grandchild, nephew). (various references) | |
Cebuano | apo nga lalaki. (various references) | |
Chamorro | nietu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 孙子, 孫 . (various references) | |
Cornish | mabwyn. (various references) | |
Czech | vnuk. (various references) | |
Danish | barnebarn (granddaughter). (various references) | |
Dutch | kleinzoon (grandchild). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nepo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ommusonur, ommubarn (grandchild, greatgrandson), barnabarn, abbabarn. (various references) | |
Farsi | پسرپسر, پسردختر, نوه (Grandchild, Granddaughter). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyttärenpoika, pojanpoika. (various references) | |
French | petit-fils (grandchild). (various references) | |
German | Enkel (grandchild, grandchildren). (various references) | |
Greek | εγγονόσ (grandchild), εγγονός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | נכד (grandchild). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fiúunoka. (various references) | |
Icelandic | barnabarn. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ingutaq nukappiaq. (various references) | |
Italian | nipote (grandchild, granddaughter, nephew, niece). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 孫息子 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まごむすこ. (various references) | |
Kongo | ntekolo wa yakala. (various references) | |
Korean | 손자. (various references) | |
Manx | oe (grandchild). (various references) | |
Maya | h aabil. (various references) | |
Norwegian | barnebarn (grandchild). (various references) | |
Papiamen | nieto, bisanieto, bisañetu. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andsongray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | neto (grandchild). (various references) | |
Romanian | nepot (boy, descendant, nephew). (various references) | |
Romany | cshavesko cshav. (various references) | |
Russian | внук (grandchild, grandchildren). (various references) | |
Samoan | atalii o fanau. (various references) | |
Scottish | iarogha (great grandson), fionnogha (grandson's grandson), dubhogha (the great grandson's grandson). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unuk. (various references) | |
Spanish | nieto (grandchild). (various references) | |
Swedish | sonson (grandchild), dotterson (grandchild). (various references) | |
Thai | เหลนชาย (great-grandson), เหลน (great-grandchild, great-grandson). (various references) | |
Turkish | torun (descendant, grandchild, granddaughter, offshoot), erkek torun. (various references) | |
Turkmen | зowluk (great-grandson). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | внук (grandchild, oy), онук (grandchild, nephew). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chắt trai (great-grandson). (various references) | |
Welsh | w+yr (grandchild). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nepos nepotis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | neveu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grandson": grandsons. (additional references) | |
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"Grandson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arnarson, Frandsen, Gandon, Garmanson, Graddon, grandio, grando, Grandos, Granston, Grenson, Grindon, Grundon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grandson" (pronounced gra"ndsu'n or gra"nsu'n) |
| 3 | -s u' n | stepson. |
| 3 | -s u' n | stepson. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: dragons. | |
-2 letters: adorns, argons, dongas, donnas, dragon, gonads, grands, groans, orangs, organs, radons, sarong. | |
-3 letters: adorn, agons, argon, arson, dagos, dangs, darns, donas, donga, dongs, donna, dorsa, drags, gnars, goads, gonad, grads, grand, grans, groan, nards, nonas, orang, organ, radon, rands, roads, roans, sarod, sonar. | |
-4 letters: ados, agon, ands, anon, dago, dags, dang, darn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: androgens, grandsons. | |
+2 letters: androgynes, groundsman, gynandrous, snapdragon. | |
+3 letters: androgynies, androgynous, gadroonings, montagnards, snapdragons, squadroning. | |
+4 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, crossbanding, denigrations, gormandising, nongraduates, ropedancings, snowboarding. | |
+5 letters: bildungsroman, cotransducing, crossbandings, dangerousness, degenerations, demonstrating, disorganizing, gonadotropins, grandioseness, nondecreasing, nonsegregated, prostaglandin, scandalmonger, snowboardings, subordinating, undercoatings. | |
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