great-grandchild
Americannoun
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great-grandchildren
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of great-grandchild
First recorded in 1745–55
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The story follows four generations of a Scottish family, from a physicist to her great-grandchild, who is born on Mars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
According to the Sun-Times, his survivors include their two sons, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
After spending 40 minutes with his great-grandchild, Biden showed up at a Santa Monica fire station saying, “It’s astounding what’s happening.”
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2025
He is survived by his wife, three children, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
Every time Her Gracious Majesty gets a new grandchild or great-grandchild, Canon, he cooms an' says, 'Margaret, have you any more chickens as wants names?'
From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis
Some of that money belongs to Valor’s limited partners, but Gracias gets a nice carry there, and certainly stands to make the kind of money that his great-grandchildren will enjoy.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
His survivors include five children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
She’s clearly positioned in the film as an intellectually rich matriarch—there are lovingly shot images of her with her grand- and great-grandchildren on the beach, and footage of her playing Bach.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Third-degree relatives, such as cousins or great-grandparents and great-grandchildren, share one eighth.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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