Word Meanings - GREAT-GRANDCHILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

Related words: (words related to GREAT-GRANDCHILD)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• GRANDSON
  A son's or daughter's son.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• CHILDING
  Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
• CHILDHOOD
  1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. The well-governed childhood of this
• CHILDNESS
  The manner characteristic of a child. "Varying childness." Shak.
• CHILDBEARING
  The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.
• CHILD
  1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants. 2. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as,
• CHILDLIKE
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker. Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity;
• GRANDDAUGHTER
  The daughter of one's son or daughter.
• CHILDE
  A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.
• CHILDLY
  Having tthe character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child. Gower.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• STEPCHILD
  1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• UNCHILD
  1. To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak. 2. To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.