great-grandmother
great-grandmother — noun
1. your grandparent's mother, who is two generations older than you in your family.
your grandparent's mother, who is two generations older than you in your family.
My great-grandmother lived to be ninety-eight and had seven children.
collocation: live to be [age]
The old photograph shows my great-grandmother as a young woman in 1920.
possessive: my great-grandmother as [role]
Aiko's great-grandmother taught her how to make traditional rice cakes.
We found our great-grandmother's diary in an old wooden box at home.
Every summer the family visits great-grandmother's village in the mountains.
- grandmother
one generation closer — the mother of your parent, not your grandparent
- ancestor
broader term covering any relative from past generations, not specifically two generations above
- forebear
more formal and literary, any ancestor without specifying the generational distance
- great-grandchild
a person two generations below you in the family line
文法句型
great-grandmother + of + [person]
possessive: [pronoun]'s + great-grandmother
用法筆記
This noun is usually used with a possessive (my, your, his, her, our, their, or a name followed by 's) because each person has a specific great-grandmother.