gramps
Americannoun
Usage
What does gramps mean? Gramps is an informal word for grandfather—the father of a person’s parent. It’s a variant of the word grandpa, which is commonly pronounced like grampa. Similar words for a grandmother are gran and granny. Gramps should be capitalized when it’s used as a proper name, as in Please tell Gramps that I miss him. But gramps does not need to be capitalized when it’s simply used as a way to refer to him, as in Please tell my gramps that I miss him. Example: It doesn’t matter what you call your gramps, as long as you call him.
Etymology
Origin of gramps
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He added that it “felt like the founding fathers were smiling down on us in that room, and I guarantee my dad and gramps, both vets, would be proud.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022
“I just want to carry his legacy, and hold it down for gramps, you know.”
From Reuters • Feb. 3, 2022
GMT11:09 48 min: “Let’s be honest here for a moment: anyone whose humanity hasn’t been corroded beyond redemption by football tribalism wants gramps Arsene to win the league this season,” says Philip Podolsky.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2015
If gramps had the means to wine and dine other women, he surely can spring for a baby gate.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2014
Maybe that’s what my gramps still sees every time he looks in my face, like when I showed up to his front door yesterday morning.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
