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/ˈɡrænˌperənt/ · /ˈɡrænˌpeərənt/
The mother or father of one of your parents. You have four grandparents, and the word is used most often in the plural, for both sides of the family together.
祖父母；外祖父母
複數 grandparents
核心畫面
One step further up the family line than 'parent': the parent of your parent. Because it does not say man or woman, and does not say which side of the family, it is the neutral word that lets you talk about all four of them at once.
可以想成把 parent 往上再推一層：你的父母的父母。這個詞刻意不講性別、也不分內外——所以中文要說「祖父母、外祖…更多收起
可以想成把 parent 往上再推一層：你的父母的父母。這個詞刻意不講性別、也不分內外——所以中文要說「祖父母、外祖父母」四個人時，英文一句 my grandparents 就包住了。也因為這樣，它最常出現的樣子是複數。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
grandparentnoun/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/
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The parent of someone's parent.
- A 15-year-old orphan is being forced from the Arizona senior community where he lives with his grandparents after the homeowner’s association said it could face legal issues if he stayed.
- More than 140,000 US children have lost a parent or grandparent who takes care of them to Covid-19, CDC researchers reported Thursday, which is as many as one in 500 US kids.
grandparentverb/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/
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Synonym of grandfather.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。