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grandrelation

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English

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Etymology

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From grand- +‎ relation.

Noun

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grandrelation (plural grandrelations)

  1. A member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.
    • 1989, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari, page 188:
      This includes bilateral name relations, consanguineal-affinal term transpositions, reciprocal grandrelation and sibling-cohort terms, extension of relationship terms through namesake equivalence, and marriage to specific cousin categories.