great-granddaughter
Americannoun
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great-granddaughters
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of great-granddaughter
First recorded in 1745–55
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He is survived by three children, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Relatives said the victims were a woman in her 70s, a son and his wife, another son, her four grandchildren, and her great-granddaughter, who was two years old.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
His wife survives him, along with three of his five sons, three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Among people present was Orsola Mussolini, great-granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who supplied crucial military backing to Franco during the civil war alongside Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
His wife, Mary Custis Lee, was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, who was the wife of George Washington, America’s top general in the American Revolution and our nation’s first president.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
The great-granddaughters of agriculture entrepreneur William Wallace Cargill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters also attended.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
Peter said his dad, who had five granddaughters, two great-grandsons and six great-granddaughters, had been battling cancer in recent times.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
In addition to her and his granddaughter Ms. Hoof, he is survived by three daughters, Tejal Panthaki, Radhika Kathpalia and Maneesha Akkitham; four other grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
The actual pairing cells are thus second cousins, great-granddaughters of the original cell of the secondary cysts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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