great-grandchild

[ greyt-gran-chahyld ]

/ ˌgreɪtˈgrænˌtʃaɪld /

a grandchild of one's son or daughter.

Origin of great-grandchild

First recorded in 1745–55

“The people in Chibok are the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the ones we knew,” Gerald says.

We Built a School in Boko Haram’s Heartland |Michael Daly |May 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Misao lives in Osaka and remains in good health, surrounded by six great-grandchildren.

The Top 13 Guinness World Records of 2013: Kim Kardashian, ‘Breaking Bad,’ Colonel Meow & More | |December 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The mother of six left 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The Ballad of Mitzi Stauffer Briggs, Heiress Who Lost It All in Vegas |John L. Smith |September 30, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Isabel Allende: How a Mysterious Baby Girl Sparked My Fight for Women |Isabel Allende |October 20, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

And if I am lucky enough to have great-grandchildren someday, we are told the figure could be 32 percent of GDP.

Paul Ryan’s Medicare Misconceptions |Tom Daschle |August 20, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Olenda gave me three of his sons, or, I should rather say, great-grandchildren.

Lost in the Jungle |Paul Du Chaillu
Sally has been married three times and has had seven children, about 54 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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Yet I have conversed as familiarly with the author of it as I do with my own great-grandchildren.

Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete |Albert Bigelow Paine
She was fond of a game of whist, and her great-grandchildren once attempted to teach her to play euchre.

The Story of Cooperstown |Ralph Birdsall
One hundred years from now, possibly, our great, great-grandchildren will consider us as having lived in the "stone age."

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