great-grandparenthood

noun

The state of being a great-grandparent.

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Meanings

noungreat-grandparenthood (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state of being a great-grandparent.

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

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

    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

Origin

From great-grandparent + -hood.

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