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GREAT GRANDPARENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does great grandparent mean?
• GREAT GRANDPARENT (noun)
The noun GREAT GRANDPARENT has 1 sense:
1. a parent of your grandparent
Familiarity information: GREAT GRANDPARENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A parent of your grandparent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("great grandparent" is a kind of...):
forbear; forebear (a person from whom you are descended)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "great grandparent"):
great grandmother (a mother of your grandparent)
great grandfather (a father of your grandparent)
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