greatgranddaughterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From great- +‎ granddaughter.

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名詞

great-granddaughter (plural great-granddaughters)

1. The daughter of someone's grandchild.
   • 1999 February 14, Liesl Schillinger, “The Lost Art of the Love Affair”, in The New York Times‎:

     Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."

使用する際の注意点

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

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