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GRANDDAUGHTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does granddaughter mean?
• GRANDDAUGHTER (noun)
The noun GRANDDAUGHTER has 1 sense:
1. a female grandchild
Familiarity information: GRANDDAUGHTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female grandchild
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("granddaughter" is a kind of...):
grandchild (a child of your son or daughter)
Context examples
And was so touched and pleased by that confiding little kiss that all his crustiness vanished, and he just set her on his knee, and laid his wrinkled cheek against her rosy one, feeling as if he had got his own little granddaughter back again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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