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great-granddaughter
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See also: great granddaughter and greatgranddaughter
English
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Etymology
From great- + granddaughter.
Pronunciation
Noun
great-granddaughter (plural great-granddaughters)
- The daughter of someone's grandchild.
- 1999 February 14, Liesl Schillinger, “The Lost Art of the Love Affair”, in The New York Times:
- Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
Usage notes
Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of descent. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-granddaughter", "four-greats granddaughter" or "four-times-great-granddaughter".
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Translations
the daughter of someone's grandchild
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