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grandson

noun
/ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/

Etymology

From grand- + son.

  1. derived from *sewH-✻ — “to bear; give birth”
  2. inherited from *suHnús✻ — “son”
  3. inherited from *sunuz✻ — “son”
  4. inherited from *sunu✻
  5. inherited from sunu
  6. inherited from sonn
  7. formed as grandson — “grand- + son”

Definitions

  1. A son of one's child.

    • Three days after his young grandsons died in a fire police said was set by their father, Chuck Cox on Wednesday still was coming to grips with what happened.
    • She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grandson. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grandson. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at grandson

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA