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granddaughter

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The daughter of someone's child.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grandgirl

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grandchild

2

noun

Meaning 2

a female grandchild

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grandchild

History

Etymology

From grand- + daughter.

Across languages

Translations

156 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kleindogter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Albanian: mbesë — daughter of someone’s child
  • Arabic: حَفِيدَة (ḥafīda) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Armenian: թոռնուհի (tʻoṙnuhi) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Aromanian: nipoatã — daughter of someone’s child
  • Asturian: nieta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Asturian: ñeta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Azerbaijani: nəvə — daughter of someone’s child
  • Bashkir: ейәнсәр (yeyənsər) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Belarusian: уну́чка (unúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Belarusian: ўну́чка (wnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Bengali: নাতনি (natoni) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Bhojpuri: पोती (pōtī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Bhojpuri: नतनी (natənī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Breton: merc'h-vihan — daughter of someone’s child
  • Bulgarian: вну́чка (vnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Burmese: မြေး (mre:) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Burmese: မြေးမ (mre:ma.) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Carpathian Rusyn: вну́чка (vnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Catalan: néta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Chinese: 查某孫 /查某孙 (tsa-bóo-sun) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Chinese Mandarin: 孫女 /孙女 (sūnnǚ) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Chinese Mandarin: 外孫女 /外孙女 (wàisūnnǚ) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Czech: vnučka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Danish: sønnedatter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Danish: datterdatter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Dutch: kleindochter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Esperanto: nepino — daughter of someone’s child
  • Estonian: pojatütar — daughter of someone’s child
  • Estonian: tütretütar — daughter of someone’s child
  • Ewe: tɔgbuiyɔvinyɔnu — daughter of someone’s child
  • Faroese: abbadóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Faroese: ommudóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Faroese: sonardóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Faroese: dótturdóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Finnish: pojantytär — daughter of someone’s child
  • Finnish: tyttärentytär — daughter of someone’s child
  • French: petite-fille — daughter of someone’s child
  • Galician: neta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Georgian: შვილიშვილი (švilišvili) — daughter of someone’s child
  • German: Enkelin — daughter of someone’s child
  • Greek: εγγονή (engoní) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Hebrew: נֶכְדָּה (nekhdá) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Hindi: पोती (potī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Hindi: नातिन (nātin) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Hungarian: lányunoka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Icelandic: sonardóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Icelandic: dótturdóttir — daughter of someone’s child
  • Indonesian: cucu — daughter of someone’s child
  • Interlingua: granfilia — daughter of someone’s child
  • Irish: gariníon — daughter of someone’s child
  • Italian: nipote — daughter of someone’s child
  • Japanese: 孫娘 (magomusume) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Japanese: 孫 (mago) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Kazakh: немере (nemere) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Kazakh: қыз немере (qyz nemere) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Khmer: ចៅស្រី (caw srǝy) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Khmer: នត្តាស្រី (nŏəttaa srəy) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Korean: 손녀 (sonnyeo) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Korean: 외손녀 (oesonnyeo) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Kyrgyz: мемире (memire) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Kyrgyz: небире (nebire) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Lao: ຫລານສາວ (lān sāo) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latgalian: unuce — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latin: neptis — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latin: nepos — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latin: profilia — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latin: nepota — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latin: nepta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Latvian: mazmeita — daughter of someone’s child
  • Lithuanian: dukraitė — daughter of someone’s child
  • Lithuanian: anūkė — daughter of someone’s child
  • Old Lithuanian: nepuotis — daughter of someone’s child
  • Luxembourgish: Enkelin — daughter of someone’s child
  • Macedonian: вну́ка (vnúka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Macedonian: вну́чка (vnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Malay: cucu perempuan — daughter of someone’s child
  • Malay: cucu — daughter of someone’s child
  • Maltese: neputija — daughter of someone’s child
  • Manchu: ᠣᠮᠣᠯᠣ ᠰᠠᡵᡤᠠᠨ ᠵᡠᡳ (omolo sargan jui) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Manx: oe 'neen — daughter of someone’s child
  • Mongolian: ач охин (ač oxin) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Mongolian: зээ охин (zee oxin) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Norman: p'tite-fil'ye — daughter of someone’s child
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sønnedatter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Norwegian Bokmål: datterdatter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dotterdotter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sonedotter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Occitan: felena — daughter of someone’s child
  • Occitan: rèirefilha — daughter of someone’s child
  • Odia: ନାତୁଣୀ (nātuṇi) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Old East Slavic: вънука (vŭnuka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Old English: nefene — daughter of someone’s child
  • Old English: nift — daughter of someone’s child
  • Pannonian Rusyn: унука (unuka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Pannonian Rusyn: унучка (unučka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Pennsylvania German: Enkelin — daughter of someone’s child
  • Dari: نَوَاسَه (nawāsa) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Dari: نَبَسَه (nabasa) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Iranian Persian: نَوِه — daughter of someone’s child
  • Iranian Persian: نَبَسِه (nabase) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Plautdietsch: Grootdochta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Polish: wnuczka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Portuguese: neta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Punjabi: ਪੋਤਰੀ (potrī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Romani: nepòta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Romani: ùnuka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Romanian: nepoată — daughter of someone’s child
  • Russian: вну́чка (vnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Rwanda-Rundi: umwuzukuru — daughter of someone’s child
  • Sanskrit: नप्ती (naptī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Sanskrit: नप्त्री (naptrī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Scottish Gaelic: ban-ogha — daughter of someone’s child
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean-mhic — daughter of someone’s child
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean-ighne — daughter of someone’s child
  • Scottish Gaelic: bìodag — daughter of someone’s child
  • Scottish Gaelic: stobag — daughter of someone’s child
  • Serbo-Croatian: у̀нука — daughter of someone’s child
  • Serbo-Croatian: ùnuka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Sindhi: پوٽِي (poṭī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Sindhi: ڏوهٽِي (ḏohṭī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Slovak: vnučka — daughter of someone’s child
  • Slovene: vnukinja — daughter of someone’s child
  • Southern Altai: балазыныҥ кыс балазы (balazïnïŋ kïs balazï) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Spanish: nieta — daughter of someone’s child
  • Sundanese: incu — daughter of someone’s child
  • Swedish: sondotter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Swedish: dotterdotter — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tajik: набера (nabera) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tajik: навоса (navosa) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tamil: பேத்தி (pētti) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tamil: பெயர்த்தி (peyartti) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tatar: сущ онык (suşç onıq) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Tatar: онык (onıq) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Telugu: మనుమరాలు (manumarālu) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Thai: หลานสาว (lǎan-sǎao) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Turkish: kız torun — daughter of someone’s child
  • Turkish: torun — daughter of someone’s child
  • Turkmen: gyz agtyk — daughter of someone’s child
  • Turkmen: agtyk — daughter of someone’s child
  • Ukrainian: вну́чка (vnúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Ukrainian: ону́чка (onúčka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Ukrainian: ону́ка (onúka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Ukrainian: вну́ка (vnúka) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Urdu: پوتی (potī) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Urdu: ناتِن (nātin) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Uzbek: nabira — daughter of someone’s child
  • Uzbek: nevara — daughter of someone’s child
  • Vietnamese: cháu gái — daughter of someone’s child
  • Welsh: wyres — daughter of someone’s child
  • Yámana: makutsa — daughter of someone’s child
  • Yiddish: גראַנדאָטער (grandoter) — daughter of someone’s child
  • Zazaki: pıt — daughter of someone’s child
  • Zazaki: pıtek — daughter of someone’s child
  • Zhuang: lanmbwk — daughter of someone’s child
  • Zigula: mwezikulu class 1 — daughter of someone’s child
Real reading context

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