great-grandparent
15
2.3
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪtˈɡrænˌpɛr.ənt/
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- I often hear stories from my great-grandparents about how life was in their time.
- parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents
You have not had a great deal of genetic drift from your great, great, great grandparents.
- You have not had a great deal of genetic drift from your great, great, great grandparents.
- But our mission was to find Asian Americans who were cooking the way their grandparents and great grandparents were.
- If you if you share, if you have a match with a second cousin, that means that you must share one set of great grandparents in common.
- What is amazing to me is that our great great grandparents, our great grandparents, and our grandparents would laugh at the shit that we cry about.
- It's people whose grandparents and great grandparents are telling them stories about what it was like when they were picked up.
- How many stories have you heard of parents and grandparents and great grandparents that sacrifice like crazy to put you in the position that you're in today?
- Realize too, that even if you're a, a relatively poor American, you're living in the dream world of your great, great grandparents.
- So in a typical family, there would be the grandparents and maybe even great grandparents and the the parents and the children, right?
- They are the their grandparents and great grandparents were the founders of this country.
- Loved ones, great grandparents, great uncles see my dad dying.
- We're carrying on those those deals from grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents without even knowing it.
- I always say I'm teaching people what our great grandparents knew they knew to how to be with all of this.
- Today my grandparents and my great grandparents and my and those before them fought so hard to give me this gift.
Examples
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My great grandparents came here from Italy at the turn of the century.
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I've been wondering if this house had been built when my great-grandparents lived here.
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I always say I'm teaching people what our great grandparents knew they knew to how to be with all of this.
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Because our parents and great grandparents, they made all this work, you know, this was all their innovations and a lot of hard work.
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After my great-grandparents got to America, they had another child.
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The class was able to imagine what it was like to live when their great-grandparents were young.
Academic text (1998) -
Today, the great majority of young children in developed countries have four living grandparents, and some have great-grandparents.
Academic text (2002) -
I grieve in my own life the passing of my grandparents and great-grandparents and the loss.
Academic text (2004) -
Anders had been born in Wisconsin in the same small town where his great-grandparents were buried.
Fiction book (2000) -
We went to a stone church and ate watermelon among our great-grandparents' tombstones.
Fiction book (1991)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
great-grandparent = grandparent (transparent) = great + grandparent
The word is formed by adding 'great' to 'grandparent' and the meaning is directly deducible as the parent one generation above a grandparent.
Etymology
Great-grandparent is made from great and grandparent, and grandparent is grand + parent, meaning the 'parent of your parent'. Adding great shows 'one more generation', so a great-grandparent is the 'parent of your grandparent'.