Grandson
['græn(d)sʌn] or ['ɡrænsʌn]
Definition
(n.) A son's or daughter's son.
Checker: Marge
Examples
- His grandson, Samuel Franklin, is still living in Boston. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Is it Mrs. Rouncewell's grandson? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Guppy and his friend follow Rosa; Mrs. Rouncewell and her grandson follow them; a young gardener goes before to open the shutters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The old man thought he would die contented if he could see his grandson in a fair way to such honours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The residue and remainder of all my books, manuscripts, and papers, I do give to my grandson William Temple Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So it was that Charles, his grandson, inherited most of the American continent and between a third and a half of what the Turks had left of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It held together until the death of his grandson Louis (840), and then France and Germany broke away again--to the great injury of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was Alyattes, the grandson of Gyges, who made Lydia into a considerable power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He keeps his grandson shut up, when he isn't riding or walking with his tutor, and makes him study very hard. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Her grandson apologizes with True. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was founded by Uz, the grandson of Noah. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- After him her grandson, John XII, filled the chair of St. Peter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mother, having lost her boy, imagined a grandson, and wished in a double sense to reclaim her daughter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Tanya