Great-grandfather
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The father of one's grandparent.
"The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers."
Example
More examples"The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather."
Etymology
From great- + grandfather.
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