great-grandnieces

Siblings' descendants' daughters

Great-grandnieces are the daughters of one's grandnieces or grandnephews—that is, female members of the family four generations removed from a common ancestor.

The term tracks the same generational distance as great-grandchildren but through siblings rather than direct descent: My great-grandnieces visit every summer.

genealogy

ancestry

Family line of descent

heritage · descendants · progeny · posterity · forebears · progenitors · roots · succession · generations · dynasty

family

relatives

Those connected by blood

inheritance · heirs · heirlooms · wills · estates · bequests · legacies · storytelling · elders · matriarch

kinship

grandnephews

Brothers' or sisters' grandsons

Opposites
generational direction

great-grandniecesgreat-grandaunts

Grandparents' aunts

ancestors · great-granduncles · great-grandmothers

gender

great-grandniecesgreat-grandnephews

Male descendants of niblings, twice-removed

great-grandnephew

lineal vs. collateral descent

great-grandniecesgreat-granddaughters

Female descendants, third generation

great-grandsons · direct descendants · granddaughters · daughters

Family

great, grand, niece, nieces, grandniece, grandnieces, great-grandniece, greater, greatest

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