grandparent

Pluralgrandparents

Formsgrandparents, grandparenting, grandparented

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A parent of one's mother or father.

   Each grandparent contributed an old story to the family album.

   Many children first learn family traditions from their grandparents.

   Oppositegrandchild

2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To exempt someone or something from a new rule because of a situation that already existed before the rule took effect.

   Lawmakers agreed to grandparent the current license holders rather than make them reapply.

   The new building code grandparents older structures that already met the previous standards.

   Similargrandfather

   Note

   A gender-neutral stand-in for the verb grandfather. It is built from grand- and parent, so the exemption no longer has to be pictured as a father's. It inflects regularly (grandparents, grandparenting, grandparented) and takes a direct object: the person, building or practice allowed to keep its earlier standing. The meaning matches grandfather exactly. Only the image behind it changes.

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