Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A son of one's nephew or niece.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A son of one's nephew or niece: correlative to granduncle and grandaunt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The grandson of one's brother or sister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Grandson of one'ssibling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a son of your niece or nephew
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Examples
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Drawing from handwritten notes by Bram Stoker, the horror author’s great-grandnephew is set to pen a Dracula sequel entitled Dracula: The Un-Dead.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Frankfurt Fair Begins…and Other News 2008
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Aunt Hetty Vanderveer who was queer and going on to eighty, who couldn't live with a relative for they always wanted to borrow her money, got tangled up in a house on which she had a mortgage, and called her grandnephew, Mr. John Borden to her rescue.
A Modern Cinderella Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
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"You seem to forget that I am her nephew that is, her grandnephew.
Luke Walton Horatio Alger 1865
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This includes the head of the Stock Exchange, the head of the Financial Services Authority, and even the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, who is a grandnephew of the former Archbishop of Malta.
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Jean Cazals for The Wall Street Journal BUZZY PARIS: One of the chicest new addresses to partake in afternoon tea is at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, recently transformed into the Shangri-La Hotel.
Standing on Ceremony 2011
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Just reading some abbreviated news article about how the great grandnephew of Bram Stoker had co-authored the book, I cringed.
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One of the chicest new addresses is close to the Trocadéro, at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, transformed recently into the Shangri-La Hotel.
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In 1938 he traveled to Austria from Paris vainly hoping to convince the government to appoint Franz Josef's grandnephew as chancellor.
Dispatches From a Lost Empire Tess Lewis 2012
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The company is surviving by importing oysters from Texas and selling them unopened to clients, says Sal Sunseri, the company's vice president and grandnephew of its founder.
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When it came to expansion, the museum's board, chaired by Gardner's great-grandnephew Jack Gardner, would not "pull the trigger until May," Ms. Hawley says.
'Elitism for All' Julia M. Klein 2010
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