great-grandmother

great-grandmother — 名詞

1. your grandparent's mother, who is two generations older than you in your family.

1.名詞A2
釋義

曾祖母

祖父母的母親，比自己年長兩代

your grandparent's mother, who is two generations older than you in your family.

例句

My great-grandmother lived to be ninety-eight and had seven children.

我的曾祖母活到九十八歲，生了七個小孩。

collocation: live to be [age]

The old photograph shows my great-grandmother as a young woman in 1920.

這張老照片顯示我的曾祖母在一九二零年時還是個年輕女子。

possessive: my great-grandmother as [role]

同義詞
  • 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

反義詞

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.

常見錯誤

❌My greatgrandmother told me stories about the war.
✅My great-grandmother told me stories about the war.
💡The word requires a hyphen between 'great' and 'grandmother'.