Meaning & use
grandparent
A parent of one's father or mother; a grandmother or grandfather.
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All four grandparents came to watch her graduate from college.
Many children today live far from at least one grandparent.
A note on using this word
Grandparent is the gender-neutral term covering both grandmother and grandfather.
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