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词汇 grandparent
释义 grandparent
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡræn.peə.rənt/ us /ˈɡræn.per.ənt/
A2
the father or mother of a person's father or mother(外)祖父;(外)祖母
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a grandparent
grandparentMy grandparents are both in their 80s.
grandmotherWe went to visit our grandmother in hospital.
grandfatherHer paternal grandfather was a miner.
grandmaWhen grandma comes to visit, she always brings sweets.
grannyShe visited her granny in Pasadena.
nanUKShe was brought up by her nan.
Examples

The children are very attached to their grandparents.孩子们非常依恋他们的祖父母。
My paternal grandparents were Irish.
His visits gave his grandparents such pleasure.他来看望爷爷奶奶,这让他们非常开心。
The children usually stay with their grandparents for a week in the summer.
Her parents died when she was a baby and she was raised by her grandparents.她从小父母就去世了,是祖父母把她抚养大的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Family: relations in general
anti-family
aunt
auntie
baby daddy
baby mama
family man
father
fatherhood
filial
filially
kinsman
kinswoman
kith and kin
long-lost
loved one
relationship
relative
removed
second cousin
sib
Examples from literature

Are we prepared to give up meat every day and return to having it less frequently, like our grandparents did? 
He’s playing outside at his grandparents’ house. 
My grandparents’ house was only 100 meters from the beach. 

grandparent | American Dictionary


grandparent
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɡrændˌpær·ənt, -ˌpeər-/
the father or mother of a person’s father or mother

Examples of grandparent


grandparent
The final two sections in the book address the issues affecting grandparents among diverse populations and services and interventions.
It is not uncommon to find grandparents, parents, and children if not in the same house, living within blocks of each other.
The same negative image was commonly expressed where grandparents played a prominent role in school-related activities.
It increases the value of some grandparents, especially maternal, and in particular where parenting breakdown increases the need for childcare.
Indeed, grandparents were even more heavily used during this time than at other times.
Many other grandparents obtain only short-stay single-entry visitor's visas.
There were lower percentages for speaking to parents and grandparents.
All of the participants were parents and some were grandparents.
The parents have more rights than grandparents about how the children shall be brought up.
These officials required petitioners to submit their birth and marriage certificates along with those of the examinees' parents and grandparents.
Participants spoke of the time they spent with neighbours' children, some even described this relationship as being like a surrogate grandparent.
The remaining chapters focus on the impact of divorce, exploring questions of communication, taking sides, ' being there ' and the experiences of excluded grandparents.
When spouses split in anger, that anger can easily extend to the grandparents on that side too.
In a later chapter, the authors highlight older people's rejection of the presumption that grandparents are happy to provide child-care.
The current study was cross-sectional, while the parent, grandparent and great-grandparent roles develop over the life-span.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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