great-grandmother

[ greyt-gran-muhth-er, -grand-, -gram- ]

noun

Origin of great-grandmother

First recorded in 1520–30

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His great-grandmother, Thelma Yellin, was a world-renowned cellist.
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Before he did, he asked his great-grandmother for permission.
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The great-grandmother then joined family members of both children in a room as the trauma team fought to save the two.
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The link between stress and heart attacks is something even your great-grandmother knew about.
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My great-grandmother was a first-generation American and the mother of three small children.
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You know full well that her great-grandfather led our great-grandmother astray.
File No. 113 | Emile Gaboriau
Messia already reckons her seventy years, and is a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
But the prince did not hint that she looked as the picture of his great-grandmother looked.
The Book of Fables and Folk Stories | Horace E. Scudder
My great-grandmother's great-grandmother was a black kitten of the sacred white cat; and the river Nile made her his seventh wife.
Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw
Mention must be made that Doa Paula's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother had all gone by the name of Serena.
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