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grandcousin en · NOUN

Etymology

From grand- + cousin.

Meanings

1. The grandchild of a first cousin, or the first cousin of a grandparent; first cousin twice removed.
   • Just recently I learned that the star of the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team is the great-grandson of my first cousin Myrtle, which I suppose makes him my great-grandcousin. 1993, Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, Ann Watters, Coming from Home: Readings for Writers, →ISBN, page 9:
   • This grandcousin of Christian Fenger's indeed was a brilliant man and went into great estate, but the rest of the Fenger family is curiously reticent about him. 1941, Jens Christian Bay, The Fortune of Books:
   • I would like to thank my brother Onuora Nwosu, my grandcousin, Mr. Tony Ikebudu, and my brother-in-law, Mr. Emma Nnedum, for making that connection for me. 2014, Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko, Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, →ISBN:
   • Also, Aunt Maggie had a daughter, Janyce, who was warm like her mother, had a great relationship with her aunt Ava and Uncle Edwin, and even came out to the house quite often to visit with everyone, especially her grandcousin Sonya. 2010, D. Alexander Holiday, In the Care of Strangers: The Autobiography of A Foster Child, →ISBN:

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