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great-grandparenthood en · NOUN

Etymology

From great-grandparent + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a great-grandparent.
    • He and Segismunda enjoy happiness and prosperity and eventually take delight in great-grandparenthood. 1968, Otis Howard Green, Spain and the Western tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón, page 202:
    • Three aspects of great-grandparenthood appear to be most important. 2009, John C. Cavanaugh, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging, page 442:
    • 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. 2000, Ruth Karola Westheimer, Dr. Steven Kaplan, Grandparenthood, page 46: