Definition of Great grandparent

1. Noun. A parent of your grandparent.

Generic synonyms: Forbear, Forebear
Specialized synonyms: Great Grandmother, Great Grandfather

Definition of Great grandparent

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of great-grandparent) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Grandparent

great circles
great clock
great crest
great crested grebe
great crested grebes
great crested newt
great crested newts
great deal
great duckweed
great egret
great egrets
great foramen
great grandfather
great grandmaster
great grandmother
great grandparent
great grandparents
great gray kangaroo
great gray owl
great great grandparent
great great grandparents
great green macaw
great green macaws
great grey owl
great grey shrike
great grey shrikes
great gross
great gun
great hall
great halls

Literary usage of Great grandparent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... great-grandparent, tsa'muk- grandparent, = se'la = grand.child, When addressing a grandparent or grandchild the forms fis (masc.), t'fli (fern. ..."

2. The Institutes of Justinian by John Thomas Abdy, Bryan Walker (1876)
"In the fifth degree are a great-grandparent's grandfather and grandmother up ward; the great-grandson and great-granddaughter of a grandchild downward ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... &c., to follow grandparent, great grandparent, great great grandparent, &c. With these preliminaries arranged we can now proceed with the analysis. ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"At the conclusion of the entire case, the ordinary awarded the custody of the child to its great-grandparent, and the judgment of the superior court was in ..."

5. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"Instances of a descendant of an ancient family reverting to a great-grandparent whose characteristics were not present in the intermediate generations, ..."

6. The Kinship of Men: An Argument from Pedigrees; Or, Genealogy Viewed as a by Henry Kendall (1888)
"But, on the other hand, a third cousin is only ^ in value, while a great-great- grandparent is -^Q, which is four times nearer to the individual unit. ..."

7. Alcohol and the Human Race by Richmond Pearson Hobson (1919)
"Not until the fourth successive alcohol-free generation of those descended from an alcoholized great-great-grandparent, do the surviving progeny begin to be ..."

8. Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty: A Statistical Study in History and by Frederick Adams Woods (1906)
"Maria Theresa comes in this group no nearer than a grandparent and then only twice, and as a great-grandparent only three times. ..."

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