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Definition of Great grandparent
1. Noun. A parent of your grandparent.
Definition of Great grandparent
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of great-grandparent) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Grandparent
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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