great-grandchild

See also: greatgrandchild and great grandchild

English

Alternative forms

• great grandchild, greatgrandchild

Etymology

Etymology tree

English great-

English grand-

English child

English grandchild

English great-grandchild

From great- + grandchild.

Pronunciation

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Noun

great-grandchild (plural great-grandchildren)

1. The child (son or daughter) of one's grandchild.
   • 2017 February 10, Maureen O'Hare, “Great-grandmother cycles 10,000 miles – and she’s not stopping”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• great-grandkid (informal)

Hyponyms

• great-granddaughter
• great-grandson

Related terms

• child
• grand
• grandchild
• granddaughter
• grandfather
• grandmother
• grandparent
• grandson
• great-grandfather
• great-grandmother
• great-grandparent

Translations

The child (son or daughter) of one's grandchild

• Asturian: bisñetu (ast) m, bisnietu (ast) m, bisñeta (ast) f, bisnieta (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: nəticə (az)
• Burmese: မြစ် (my) (mrac)
• Catalan: besnet (ca) m, renet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 息 (sik¹)

  Mandarin: 曾孫 / 曾孙 (zh) (zēngsūn), 重孫 / 重孙 (zh) (chóngsūn)

• Danish: oldebarn (da) n
• Dutch: achterkleinkind (nl) n
• Estonian: lapselapselaps
• Ewe: tɔgbuitɔgbuiyɔvi n (a man's great-grandchild), mamamamɛyɔvi n (a woman's great-grandchild)
• Finnish: lapsenlapsenlapsi
• French: arrière-petit-enfant (fr) m
• Georgian: შვილთაშვილი (šviltašvili)
• German: Urenkelkind (de) n, Urenkel (de) m, Urenkelin (de) f
• Greek: δισέγγονο (el) n (diséngono)
• Hungarian: dédunoka (hu)
• Icelandic: barnabarnabarn (is) n
• Ido: posnepoto (io)
• Indonesian: cicit (id)
• Italian: bisnipote m or f
• Japanese: 曾孫 (ja) (himago)
• Kazakh: өбере (öbere), шөбере (kk) (šöbere)
• Korean: 증손(曾孫) (ko) (jeungson)
• Latin: pronepos m or f
• Malay:

  Brunei Malay: cicit

  Jawi: چيچيت (ms)

  Rumi: cicit (ms)

• Manx: aa-oe m or f
• Montana Salish: t'ot'ó
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oldebarn n

  Nynorsk: oldebarn n

• Persian: نبیره (fa) (nabire)
• Polish: prawnuczek m, prawnuczka (pl) f, prawnuczę n
• Portuguese: bisneto (pt) m, bisneta (pt) f
• Rade: čĕ
• Russian: пра́внук (ru) m (právnuk), пра́внучка (ru) f (právnučka)
• Scottish Gaelic: iar-ogha m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: praunuče (sh) n

• Spanish: bisnieto (es) m, bisnieta (es) f
• Swahili: kitukuu (sw)
• Swedish: barnbarnsbarn (sv) n
• Tagalog: apo sa tuhod
• Thai: เหลน (th) (lěen)
• Turkish: netirge
• Ukrainian: правнуча́ n (pravnučá)
• Ulwa (Nicaragua): buh
• Vietnamese: chắt (vi) (𡦫)
• Welsh: gorwyr m, gorwyres f
• Yiddish: אור־אייניקל n (ur-eynikl)

See also

• kin
• kinfolk
• relative