GRANDPARENT


Meaning of GRANDPARENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

maternal

E.'s maternal grandparents applied for residence and contact orders and on 18 February 1992 all the applications were consolidated.

Her maternal grandparents had come to New York for the occasion.

Dorothy, the eldest, went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years.

■ VERB

live

Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents .

He went to live with his grandparents .

At a private hearing in Torquay, a judge granted a residence order which allows her to continue living with her grandparents .

There, living with his grandparents is a boy named Beto.

The main options may be for him to stay put or live temporarily with his grandparents .

He then went to live with his paternal grandparents , who died of natural causes soon after his placement with them.

But with regular visiting, or through living together, grandparents could become important and sometimes crucial figures in childhood.

More than 3 million children in the United States now live with grandparents or other family members.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

My grandparents live in Oregon.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Across Route 22, in Union, my other grandparents sat choked in tinsel.

Every human being has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on.

I missed my grandparents desperately and longed for Pam.

My five-year-old godson's grandparents brought him a small, framed drawing for his christening present.

Our grandparents, then, Roman and Fenya Lubetkin.

The role of grandparents is to give time and unconditional love.

This can be an aunt or grandparent or some other family member.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.