great-grandparents

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Noun

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great-grandparents

  1. plural of great-grandparent

Usage notes

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Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of ancestry. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandparents", "four-greats grandparents" or "four-times-great-grandparents".