From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgrandadgran‧dad especially British English (also granddad) /ˈɡrændæd/ ●●● S3 noun informal [countable]SSFFAMILY grandfather
Examples from the Corpus
grandad• It might embarrass them if Henry told them about his grandad. perhaps it would stop them.• Later, usually with Preston or his grandad, he'd felt a bit more at home, but not much.• The snuffles and crunches of some unknown thing convinced my grandad that we were about to be mugged.• I was with my grandad at a lake in Gloucestershire, night-fishing for tench by the light of a tilley lamp.• This lets off grandad who makes grandson John a toy and gives it to him for Christmas.• But William's grandad had a system working for him.• Maybe it was a reaction to William's grandad and his wicked flaunting of convention.• But Alf Gover has become a sort of universal grandad. 