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grandniece

grandniece

3 7.5
The daughter of your niece or nephew
  • noun
  • /ˈɡrændˌniːs/
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  • My sister's daughter has a child, making that child my grandniece.
  • grandniece and grandnephew
  • great-grandniece

And of course his grandniece, Amy Persian, Angie, me, Mike, Tom, you know, we'd all go to the Cineman.

Examples

  • This gift is for my grandniece, who loves to draw.

  • I was hoping you'd say, "Norma, it would be a pleasure to be of assistance to your grandniece."

  • And it's been hard on my grandniece, so I hear.

  • That makes her my grandniece.

  • "As my grandniece said, we rarely have guests anymore, certainly not someone with your ... qualities."

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Norma, it would be a pleasure to be of assistance to your grandniece.

  • Never forget she's our grandniece, Winthorpe.

  • No grandniece of mine is going to spend the afternoon tearing around a baseball field like some tomboy.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • She's invited us to go watch her daughters who happened to be my grandnieces, invited us to watch them dance.

  • And so a call was made to Ms. Susan Leahy, the grandniece of Hilary Atherton herself, who was then in charge of the foundation.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

great-niece
vsgrandniece
2 4.7

A daughter of your niece or nephew

is identical in meaning but written as a single unhyphenated word

Surface Forms

grandniece singular
grandnieces plural

Morphology

grandniece = niece (transparent) = grand + niece

The kinship prefix 'grand-' is a productive English modifier meaning one generation removed, so learners who know 'grand' family terms and 'niece' can derive the meaning.

Etymology

The word grandniece comes from grand ('large' or 'great') and niece. In family words, grand shows one generation further, as in grandfather, so a grandniece is the 'daughter of your niece or nephew'.