Academic Dictionary
Home / Thesaurus / Grandchild
Find the word that fits

Grandchild: alternatives and connections

Begin with the reviewed alternatives, then explore broader connections without treating every related word as an automatic substitute.

Try an example: important law show help change happy
26,102 words currently have published synonym-style alternatives
90,593 searchable synonym connections
350,924 published thesaurus relationships of every type
Start with the meaning

Grandchild

A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

View the full dictionary entry Compare this word with another →
46 useful connections shown 5 reviewed relationships and 41 broader connections.
Best place to begin

Reviewed alternatives and contrasts

These links were deliberately created. Use the interchangeability score and guidance to judge whether a word will work in your sentence.

Narrower term 2

Granddaughter 76% connected

The daughter of one's son or daughter.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Definition Compare both words
Grandson 76% connected

A son's or daughter's son.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Definition Compare both words

Broader term 3

Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Definition Compare both words
Offspring 76% connected

The act of production; generation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Definition Compare both words
Progeny 76% connected

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Definition Compare both words
Explore further

Words connected by meaning

Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.

Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Affiliate verb · 78% connection

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Amphidromical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Anal phase noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Anal stage noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Anglo-Saxon noun · 78% connection

One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of Engl…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Auf noun · 78% connection

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Child noun · 78% connection

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Childlike adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Childly adjective · 78% connection

Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Daughterliness noun · 78% connection

The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Dyne noun · 78% connection

The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Educate verb · 78% connection

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Elder adjective · 78% connection

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now com…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Father noun · 78% connection

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
Fatimide adjective · 78% connection

Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: daughter, child, second, descent.
Definition Compare
All dictionary tools

Explore Academic Dictionary

The same nine destinations available from the header menu are shown here as a clear, fully visible grid.

Dictionary Definitions and meanings Thesaurus Synonyms with nuance Academic writing Evidence and analysis Professional Workplace vocabulary Word origins Etymology and roots Subjects Specialist dictionaries Word clusters Connected vocabulary Word similarity Compare two words Crossword Play with vocabulary