Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A child of one's son or daughter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A son's or daughter's child; a child or offspring in the second degree of descent: sometimes used loosely to include a degree more remote: correlative to grandparent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A child of someone's child.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a child of your son or daughter

Etymologies

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From grand- +‎ child

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