great-grandmother
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪtˈɡrændˌmʌðər/
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- Emma seemed very proud to follow in the footsteps of other women in her family, particularly her great-grandmother.
- old great-grandmother
- year-old great-grandmother
- great-grandmother was a slave
I take the hint and sing the old lullaby her great grandmother sang to the child I once was.
- I take the hint and sing the old lullaby her great grandmother sang to the child I once was.
- Think of like the Buddha's great grandmother.
- It was for my great grandmother's funeral, but that was like in the graveyard.
- And it was still at the slave labor camp that my grandmother was born to a German settler to whom my great grandmother was rented out.
- Yeah, like, go, go ask all your most badass professional women about their jobs and careers and then go talk to their great grandmothers.
- So this started when I was just three years old, My great grandmother three years old.
- Oh, SES, the guy is, is that Cardi B's grandma lives in the same building as my grandma, as my great grandmother.
- I am light skinned because my great grandmother on my mother's side was raped by her boss when she was a maid in Grenada.
- Well, she has a great grandmother and I could play her with a Yeah, with a with a prominent eye vein and thin lips.
Examples
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These belonged to your great-great-grandmother.
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Yeah, my mom named me for my great grandmother.
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I was named after my great grandmother.
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I had my mother, my grandmother and my great grandmother and my aunt growing up.
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I do remember your great-grandmother very well.
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Once I asked my great-grandmother if she missed Poland, where she'd come from.
Fiction book (1997) -
The pink and purple irises were from your great-grandmother's flower bed.
Fiction book (1997) -
As wife, mother, grandmother, and now great-grandmother, she has provided a sense of duty that binds the Windsors together.
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Shana pressed her forehead against the window of her great-grandmother's kitchen.
Fiction book (1999) -
My great-grandmother taught me how to bake traditional cookies when I was a child.
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Morphology
great-grandmother = grandmother (transparent) = great + grand + mother
The word is compositionally clear: 'great' modifies 'grandmother' to indicate one generation further back, a pattern familiar to learners.
Etymology
Great-grandmother comes from grandmother plus the word great. The part grand originally meant 'large' and came to mean 'one generation back' in family words, and adding great, also meaning 'large' or 'big', shows one more step back, so a great-grandmother is the mother of your grandparent.