great-grandfathers

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Noun[edit]

great-grandfathers

  1. plural of great-grandfather

Usage notes[edit]

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, "four-greats grandfathers" or "four-times-great-grandfathers".