grandparent

See also: grand-parent

English

Alternative forms

grand-parent

Etymology

From grand- +‎ parent. Compare French grand-parent.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)pæɹənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

grandparent (plural grandparents)

the parent of someone's parent

Antonyms

(with regard to ancestry) grandchild

Hyponyms

(by grandparent's gender) grandmother, grandfather
(by grandparent's and parent's genders) maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather

Derived terms

Translations

parent of one's parent

Arabic: جَدّ (ar) m (jadd) (grandfather), جَدَّة (ar) f (jadda) (grandmother)
Egyptian Arabic: جد m (ged), جدة f (geda)
Asturian: güelu (ast) m, güela (ast) f
Brunei Malay: nini
Chichewa: gogo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 祖父母 (zou² fu⁶ mou⁵), 公公婆婆 (gung¹ gung¹ po⁴ po^4-2) (maternal), 爺爺嫲嫲 / 爷爷嫲嫲 (je⁴ je⁴ maa⁴ maa⁴) (paternal)

Mandarin: 祖父母 (zh) (zǔfùmǔ)
Czech: prarodič (cs)
Dutch: grootouder (nl) m
Finnish: isovanhempi (fi)
French: grand-parent (fr) m, aïeul (fr) m, aïeule (fr) f
Galician: avós m pl (plural only)
German: Großeltern (de) pl (plural only), Großelternteil (de) m
Guaraní: (grandfather) taita guasu, (grandmother) jarýi (gn)
Hawaiian: kupuna
Hungarian: nagyszülő (hu)
Ido: avo (io)
Indonesian: kakek (id) (grandfather), nenek (id) (grandmother)
Interlingua: (grandfather) granpatre, (grandmother) granmatre (ia)
Irish: seantuismitheoir m
Italian: (grandfather) nonno (it), (grandmother) nonna (it)
Japanese: 祖父母 (ja) (そふぼ, sofubo)
Khmer: យាយតា (yeay tar)
Laboya: wede
Latvian: vecvecāki m pl (mostly used in pl)
Low German:
Westphalian: Chrautellern pl (plural only)

German Low German: Grootöllern (nds) pl (plural only)
Macedonian: де́до (mk) m (dédo) (grandfather), ба́ба (mk) f (bába) (grandmother)
Malay: datuk nenek
Norwegian:
Bokmål: besteforelder (no) m (mostly used in pl)

Nynorsk: besteforelder m (mostly used in pl)
Pennsylvania German: Groosseldre pl
Polish: dziadkowie (pl) m pl
Portuguese: avós (pt) m pl (plural only), (grandfather) avô (pt) m, (grandmother) avó (pt) f
Quechua: awki
Russian: де́душка (ru) m (déduška)， дед (ru) m (ded) (grandfather), ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), ба́ба (ru) f (bába) (grandmother)
Scottish Gaelic: seann-phàrant m
Spanish: abuelo (es) m, abuela (es) f
Swedish: no equivalent term in Swedish, but see far- eller morförälder (literally “father's or mother's parent”) and far- och morförälder (literally “father's and mother's parent”); see also farfar (sv), farmor (sv), morfar (sv), mormor (sv).
Tok Pisin: tumbuna
Tongan: kui
Tupinambá: amỹîa (grandfather; t-, t-)
Volapük: lepal (vo)
Yiddish: זיידע־באָבע pl (zeyde-bobe), באָבע־זיידע pl (bobe-zeyde)

Verb

grandparent (third-person singular simple present grandparents, present participle grandparenting, simple past and past participle grandparented)

Synonym of grandfather.