great-grandchild
Americannoun
plural
great-grandchildrenEtymology
Origin of great-grandchild
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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In 1961, he met his wife Shary and they went onto to have four sons, several grandchildren and one great grandchild.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
And it certainly doesn’t survive down to their great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild, which I think is the correct number of greats in my case.
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2023
But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2020
She is survived by her three sons and a daughter, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2017
Poor Lady Dorothea! whose great grandchild, in the tenth remove, died last week, an old man of eighty!
From Prue and I by Curtis, George William
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