1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Grandnephew

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A son of one's nephew or niece.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Grandson of one's sibling.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The grandson of one's brother or sister.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A son of one's nephew or niece: correlative to granduncle and grandaunt.

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

n. a son of your niece or nephew

Word Usage

"Aunt Hetty Vanderveer who was queer and going on to eighty, who couldn't live with a relative for they always wanted to borrow her money, got tangled up in a house on which she had a mortgage, and called her grandnephew, Mr. John Borden to her rescue."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

nephew

Cross Reference

grandniece grandaunt nephew granduncle second cousin

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

great-nephew grand-nephew greatnephew

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

nephew

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

exists' neice devisee dear father