great-grandaunts

Ancestors' elderly siblings

Great-grandaunts are the aunts of one's grandparents—sisters of a great-grandparent.

The term describes relatives three generations removed: My great-grandaunt lived to be 102.

Also called great-great-aunts, though this form is less precise.

The singular is great-grandaunt.

kinship

ancestors

Those from whom one descends

bloodline · relatives · kinfolk · elders · forebears · descendants · generations · heritage · clan · dynasty

genealogy

ancestry

Family line of descent

archives · heirlooms · photographs · obituaries · gravestones · inheritance · estate · wills · oral-history · research

memory

stories

Accounts or building levels

letters · handwriting · recipes · traditions · anecdotes · faded · sepia · albums · mementos · legacies

Opposites
generational distance

great-grandauntsgreat-grandnieces

Nieces' or nephews' granddaughters

great-grandnephews · grandnieces · grandnephews · nieces · nephews

kinship closeness

great-grandauntsmothers

Female parents collectively

daughters · sisters · parents · children · siblings

gender within same kinship position

great-grandauntsgreat-granduncles

Grandparent's uncles

Family

great, grand, aunt, aunts, grandaunt, grandaunts, great-grandaunt, greater, greatest

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