great-grandparenthood

English

Etymology

great-grandparent +‎ -hood

Noun

great-grandparenthood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a great-grandparent.
   • 1968, Otis Howard Green, Spain and the Western tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón, page 202:

     He and Segismunda enjoy happiness and prosperity and eventually take delight in great-grandparenthood.

   • 2000, Ruth Karola Westheimer, Dr. Steven Kaplan, Grandparenthood, page 46:

     Indeed, great-grandparenthood can be said to occupy much the same niche today as grandparenthood did a century ago: not all that common and little understood.

   • 2009, John C. Cavanaugh, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging, page 442:

     Three aspects of great-grandparenthood appear to be most important.