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great-grandmother

[ greyt-gran-muhth-er, -grand-, -gram- ]

noun

  1. a grandmother of one's father or mother.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of great-grandmother1

First recorded in 1520–30

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Example Sentences

His great-grandmother, Thelma Yellin, was a world-renowned cellist.

Before he did, he asked his great-grandmother for permission.

The great-grandmother then joined family members of both children in a room as the trauma team fought to save the two.

The link between stress and heart attacks is something even your great-grandmother knew about.

My great-grandmother was a first-generation American and the mother of three small children.

You know full well that her great-grandfather led our great-grandmother astray.

Messia already reckons her seventy years, and is a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

But the prince did not hint that she looked as the picture of his great-grandmother looked.

My great-grandmother's great-grandmother was a black kitten of the sacred white cat; and the river Nile made her his seventh wife.

Mention must be made that Doa Paula's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother had all gone by the name of Serena.

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