GRANDSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandson mean? 

• GRANDSON (noun)
  The noun GRANDSON has 1 sense:

1. a male grandchild

  Familiarity information: GRANDSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male grandchild

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("grandson" is a kind of...):

grandchild (a child of your son or daughter)

 Context examples 

So how are our grandsons to beat the French if we do not give them the trees with which to build their ships?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He keeps his grandson shut up, when he isn't riding or walking with his tutor, and makes him study very hard.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There comes old Sir Archibald Drew and his grandson.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some bits of wood upon the ground.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Rosamond Oliver, said he, is about to be married to Mr. Granby, one of the best connected and most estimable residents in S-, grandson and heir to Sir Frederic Granby: I had the intelligence from her father yesterday.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whatever cross-accidents had occurred to intercept the pleasures of her nieces, she had found a morning of complete enjoyment; for the housekeeper, after a great many courtesies on the subject of pheasants, had taken her to the dairy, told her all about their cows, and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese; and since Julia's leaving them they had been met by the gardener, with whom she had made a most satisfactory acquaintance, for she had set him right as to his grandson's illness, convinced him that it was an ague, and promised him a charm for it; and he, in return, had shewn her all his choicest nursery of plants, and actually presented her with a very curious specimen of heath.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The threat sounded awful, but did not alarm Jo, for she knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge’s sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)