great-grandmother

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

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noun

a grandmother of one's father or mother.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of great-grandmother¹

First recorded in 1520–30

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Example Sentences

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The names given to the princess - Charlotte Elizabeth Diana - include references to her grandmother Diana and great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

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“I come from a big Italian family on both sides, and my grandmothers—and even my great-grandmother—were always cooking. Food has always been central to our family. It still is. Ambrosia salad was one of those things that always popped up. But then it kind of fell out of fashion. We stopped seeing it.”

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I recently found out that my great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother and great-great-great-grandmother all had the first or middle name Solange.

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But the officer was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury last November, after prosecutors argued his actions towards the great-grandmother, who later died of her injuries, were "grossly disproportionate".

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Besides china, silver and crystal, I lost two paintings, painted by my father and great-grandmother.

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When To Use

�� does great-grandmother mean?

A great-grandmother is the mother of a person’s grandparent (the grandmother of a person’s parent).When a mother’s child has their own children, that mother becomes a grandmother. When those children have their own children, she becomes a great-grandmother.Should great-grandmother be capitalized?Great-grandmother should be capitalized when it’s used as a proper name, as in Please tell Great-grandmother that I miss her. But great-grandmother does not need to be capitalized when it’s simply used as a way to refer to her, as in Please tell my great-grandmother that I miss her. Example: My kids were lucky enough to get to know three of their great-grandmothers.

great-grandfather great-grandnephew

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