Grandparent
['græn(d)peər(ə)nt] or ['græn'pɛrənt]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dreaam{sic} of meeting your grandparents and conversing with them, you will meet with difficulties that will be hard to surmount, but by following good advice you will overcome many barriers.
Checker: Lucille
Examples
- He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Childr en may resemble grandparents rather than parents. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Edited by Alta