different between grandchild vs sansei

English

Etymology

From grand- +? child

Noun

grandchild (plural grandchildren)

1. A child of someone's child.
   • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:

     ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.

Synonyms

• grandbairn (Tyneside)
• grandkid (informal)
• grandoffspring
• grandwean (Scotland)
• oe

Antonyms

• (with regard to ancestry): grandparent

Hyponyms

• granddaughter
• grandson
• maternal grandchild
• paternal grandchild

Derived terms

• great-grandchild
• great-great-grandchild
• maternal grandchild
• paternal grandchild
• stepgrandchild

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??

Noun

sansei (plural sanseis or sansei)

1. A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.
   • 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:

     Under these circumstances it may not be unexpected to have the "assimilationist Sansei" protest that he is not a Japanese-Canadian; he is a Canadian, period. None of this hyphenated stuff.

See also

• issei
• nisei

References

• “sansei”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Inessa, Saines, anesis, anises, asines, sanies

Japanese

Romanization

sansei

1. R?maji transcription of ????