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Grandson

Kinship
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The son of one's child. He belongs to the generation after one's children.

Detailed Definition
A grandson is the son of a person's child. In poetry, he can represent continuation, renewal, and the startling return of family features across generations. A speaker may watch him inherit gestures, names, tools, or habits while also becoming wholly himself. The term is especially resonant in poems about aging, legacy, and time, where an elder's affection for a grandson joins hope for the future with awareness of one's own passing.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Her grandson races through the orchard with a blue kite” places a grandson in a vivid scene; A grandparent speaker may see a grandson’s face as an echo of earlier generations; “My grandson asks why the river has two names” can begin a poem about place and history; A poem may use a grandson’s first steps to contrast new life with an aging speaker’s body
Additional Notes
Grandson is the male child of one's son or daughter. The term clarifies generational distance and may connect poems to legacy, family continuity, and the perspective of elders.
Also Known As
Grandchild
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