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great-grandfather

noun

Etymology

From great- + grandfather.

  1. derived from grandpere
  2. inherited from grandfadre
  3. formed as great-grandfather — “great- + grandfather”

Definitions

  1. The father of one's grandparent.

    • The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

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