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great-niece

[ greyt-nees ]

noun

  1. a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.


great-niece

noun

  1. a daughter of one's nephew or niece; granddaughter of one's brother or sister
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of great-niece1

First recorded in 1880–85
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The new baby, Athena, is the grandchild of the Duke and Duchess of York and a great-niece to King Charles.

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It was Ms Berry’s great-niece who saved her, helping her wade through three to four feet of water, as she had a hip replacement a while back.

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Ms. Steel’s brooch, which has a Victorian Gothic aesthetic, is inscribed with the initials “JCG,†the initials of the Rev. John Gibson, a cleric-scholar, and Caroline Bendyshe, a great-niece of Admiral Lord Nelson.

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In it, Mary is Victor’s great-niece, trying to make headway in the male-dominated world of paleontology in Victorian London.

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But her great-niece recently found matches on Ancestry.com for previously unknown relatives, including one who could be another Bailey sibling.

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