"grandcousin" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grandcousins [plural]
Etymology: From grand- + cousin. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|grand|cousin}} grand- + cousin Head templates: {{en-noun}} grandcousin (plural grandcousins)
  1. The grandchild of a first cousin, or the first cousin of a grandparent; first cousin twice removed. Categories (topical): Family members

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From grand- + cousin.",
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          "ref": "1993, Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, Ann Watters, Coming from Home: Readings for Writers, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Jens Christian Bay, The Fortune of Books:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, D. Alexander Holiday, In the Care of Strangers: The Autobiography of A Foster Child, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko, Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "first cousin",
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        ],
        [
          "first cousin twice removed",
          "first cousin twice removed"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Jens Christian Bay, The Fortune of Books:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, D. Alexander Holiday, In the Care of Strangers: The Autobiography of A Foster Child, →ISBN:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko, Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, →ISBN:",
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