grandrelation

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noun

A member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.

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Meanings

noungrandrelation (plural grandrelations)

plural grandrelations

  1. A member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.

    This includes bilateral name relations, consanguineal-affinal term transpositions, reciprocal grandrelation and sibling-cohort terms, extension of relationship terms through namesake equivalence, and marriage to specific cousin categories.

    1989, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari, page 188

Origin

From grand- + relation.

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