(n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(2) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(3) The couple was delighted with their first holiday to Egypt and were planning to return with their children and grandchild within a couple of months.
(4) Similarities, however, were seen in the ranked importance of the role, in the amount of help received from grandchildren, and in grandfather-grandchild consensus.
(5) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
(6) See you soon” is not something you want to hear from your emergency department doctor, but I’d like to think that perhaps if they do return it’ll be for a grandchild that they have lived to see.
(7) I think Sanders will win Iowa and New Hampshire.” Clinton will kickstart what she hopes is her year of destiny (and which will also include a second grandchild) at a school canteen in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, followed by visits to Iowa – where the first Democratic caucus is held next month – and Las Vegas.
(8) When each interaction with a grandchild or good-bye kiss to a spouse may be the last, a sense of poignancy may permeate even the most casual everyday experiences.
(9) For larger theta values, grandparent-grandchild pairs are best; for small lambda values, sibs are best.
(10) My first grandchild is seven months old living here, and she has something I dream of – two passports.” It seems that for the man who changed the world, happiness may mean becoming Australian.
(11) He is survived by his third wife, Pearl, whom he married in 1960, a son, David, a daughter, Jordy, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(12) Son and another heir Murdoch family tree update ... the world's most successful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , has another grandchild to add to his swelling ranks of descendents after daughter Elisabeth gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, Samson.
(13) He is survived by Marlene, his sons Joss and Andy, daughter Julia, and by seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(14) Among those who visited Okawa were her eldest son, Hiroshi, 92, and her two-year-old great-grandchild.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muhammad Ali’s fourth wife Lonnie Ali , stands with Ali’s daughter Laila and a grandchild during the service.
(16) Traditionally they are older people, maybe grandparents who say ‘I don’t want my grandchild going into care.’ But they won’t be prepared for the behavioural and emotional problems which occur because nobody has prepared them for it and they will be unable to cope with the placement longer term.” There are no official figures for the number of children in the UK care system with FASD.
(17) Grandparents (N = 301) were interviewed concerning their relationship with one grandchild; topics included the meaning of the relationship, responsibility toward the grandchild, and satisfaction with the relationship.
(18) This research provides a new understanding of a significant family role, that of adult grandchild.
(19) Dundee is survived by his son, James, his daughter, Terri, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
(20) The cub is the grandchild of the zoo's last tiger cub, Hari, the father of Melati.
Granddaughter
Definition:
(n.) The daughter of one's son or daughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(2) David, remember, was a woman who chose to cook – the granddaughter of a viscount, she had grown up in a house with staff - and as such, her work appealed to the upper middle classes rather than to the massed ranks of housewives in their new Formica-filled kitchens.
(3) Faten, 70, now living in Cairo, said she went without food to provide for her granddaughters, aged nine and 11.
(4) Speaking in Hindi (her granddaughters translate for her with doctors), Chauhan says she did not tell her friends about the cancer.
(5) Some of her appeal – or so her husband's campaign team must hope – largely lies in her journey from the granddaughter of a coalminer and the second cousin of a Welsh rugby star to, potentially, the powerhouse of western democracy.
(6) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
(7) I just want justice for my granddaughter,” Roe said.
(8) I am so sorry about the last message - it was part of the radio show, it was a mistake … The truth is I am phoning you to ask if I can marry - that's right, marry - Georgina the granddaughter.
(9) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(10) She has a daughter, who is eight, but Miriama refuses to take her to visit her mother, who still lives in Africa and has never met her granddaughter, in case the child is snatched and taken to be cut, as Miriama's mother did to her.
(11) It is no accident, therefore, that his granddaughter Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics.
(12) The anti-apartheid icon had kept a low profile during the tournament, having cancelled plans to attend the opening ceremony after his great-granddaughter died in a car crash the night before.
(13) Bernardi said he had discussions with fellow Liberal backbencher, Jo Lindgren, who has Aboriginal heritage and is the granddaughter of the first Indigenous MP Neville Bonner, on what the certificate could mean.
(14) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(15) "I'm a reasonable man with four daughters and a 10-year-old granddaughter but there are certain things that get my goat.
(16) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
(17) In the messages, pre-recorded and broadcast on Radio 2 late on Saturday October 18, the pair alluded to Brand having had sex with Sachs' granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.
(18) A couple of years ago I had lunch at Carluccio’s in Covent Garden with my breastfeeding daughter and my granddaughter.
(19) The daughters of this male are mentally normal and their fragile site is difficult or impossible to detect but detection of the heterozygous genotype is much easier among the granddaughters.
(20) Nelson Mandela at 93 with (from left) his granddaughter Zaziwe, great-granddaughter Ziphokazi, daughter Zenani, granddaughter Zamaswazi and great-granddaughter Zamakhosi.