great-grandchildrenAnother example of solidarity was seen between one 83-year-old grandmother, who provided companionship to hergreat-grandchildrenand her family.From theCambridge English CorpusThis study investigates the impact of three inter-generational family roles on the psychological well-being of great-grandparents who have living children, grandchildren andgreat-grandchildren.From theCambridge English CorpusHis survivors include four daughters and two sons, 12 grandchildren; and sixgreat-grandchildren.From theCambridge English CorpusIn a few cases, where the grandparent continued to be in good health, grandchildren subsequently broughtgreat-grandchildrento stay for holidays.From theCambridge English CorpusMostgreat-grandchildrenwere, of course, still quite young in 1999.From theCambridge English CorpusQuite a few live to see theirgreat-grandchildrengrowing up.From theCambridge English CorpusOther(s) could be parents, siblings, nephews\ieces,great-grandchildrenand child's parents-inlaw (besan), but usually were their own child(ren), a child-in-law and\\or grandchildren.From theCambridge English CorpusShe took particular pleasure from her 21 grandchildren and eightgreat-grandchildren, with whom she had frequent contacts.From theCambridge English CorpusThey are always here for me and mygreat-grandchildrenare here as well.From theCambridge English CorpusAnd while there are instances of households where grandnephews and nieces andgreat-grandchildrenare present, they occur only rarely (only about 2 households per revision contain such distant relatives).From theCambridge English CorpusThe rate should be reduced for children, grandchildren andgreat-grandchildrenin the direct line.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Well, she told me she has lots of spare time and could accompany her grandchildren to school - and even hergreat-grandchildren, if she had any.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThere are 12 grandchildren and threegreat-grandchildrenand a fourth great-grandchild is due soon.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In essence, his message is that if we care about our grandchildren and ourgreat-grandchildren, we have to do something about this world.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0As a great-grandmother, she imagined hergreat-grandchildrensuffering the deprivation depicted in the programme.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/great-grandchildren##
