GREAT GRANDSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great grandson mean? 

• GREAT GRANDSON (noun)
  The noun GREAT GRANDSON has 1 sense:

1. a son of your grandson or granddaughter

  Familiarity information: GREAT GRANDSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT GRANDSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A son of your grandson or granddaughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("great grandson" is a kind of...):

great grandchild (a child of your grandson or granddaughter)

 Context examples 

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)