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great-grandson

[ greyt-gran-suhn, -grand- ]

noun

  1. a grandson of one's son or daughter.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of great-grandson1

First recorded in 1710–20
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Example Sentences

Becker, one of the podcast co-hosts, is Irma's great-grandson and his co-host, Megan, is his wife.

From Salon

With the help of her great-grandson, Dov, she gained more than one million followers on TikTok.

From BBC

Lord Ravensdale, the great-grandson of Oswald Mosley who founded the British Union of Fascists in the 1920s and 1930s, sits as a crossbench peer.

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So the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer traded it in for a “tiny” new car that’s a hybrid, and said he was “probably going to put about 10 bucks of gas in it a month.”

But the great-grandson of a lady from Calcutta will probably think it was worth the sweat in diplomatic gain.

From BBC

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