great-grandmother

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

/ ˌgreɪtˈgrænˌmʌð ər, -ˈgrænd-, -ˈgræm- /

a grandmother of one's father or mother.

Origin of great-grandmother

First recorded in 1520–30

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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If you are not like father or mother you may be like grandfather or great-grandmother.

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"Great-Grandmother seemed to run short of rhymes at the last of the epitaph," commented Dan.

The Golden Road |Lucy Maud Montgomery
I forget the name of my great-grandmother, but I believe it was Elizabeth.

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Fortunate we if our great-grandmother supplied us with it before we were born.

The Teacher |George Herbert Palmer
Why, then, our great-grandmother had a daughter when she was fifteen!

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