Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The brother of a grandfather or grandmother : in the United States generally called
great-uncle : correlative to grandnephew and grandniece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A father's or mother's uncle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US The
uncle of someone'sparent ; agreat-uncle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an uncle of your father or mother
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Examples
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‘No. The granduncle is a diamond merchant, with contacts, of course, in his native city, but it seems he has a house in No.th No.folk and an office in Hatton Garden.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters.
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For Livy this is how Romulus obtained “sole power” and how Rome was founded and named.91 Here too, fratricide succeeds parricide, since after their triumphant return Romulus and Remus had killed the tyrant, their granduncle, who had seized power from their grandfather more enemy brothers!
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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For Livy this is how Romulus obtained “sole power” and how Rome was founded and named.91 Here too, fratricide succeeds parricide, since after their triumphant return Romulus and Remus had killed the tyrant, their granduncle, who had seized power from their grandfather more enemy brothers!
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Like many passionate social conservatives, Mr. Santorum can sound a little dour, like your granduncle who says the country is going to hell on the installment plan.
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We were driving to Montana to visit my granduncle, a bishop.
Suzanne Morrison: Show Me the Sex Suzanne Morrison 2010
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John Hollstein kindly provided me with copies of personal letters written to family members by his distinguished granduncle, Frank Crowe.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Felicity de Pazzi hissed at her granduncle as she threw the book across the desk at him.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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We were driving to Montana to visit my granduncle, a bishop.
Suzanne Morrison: Show Me the Sex Suzanne Morrison 2010
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We were driving to Montana to visit my granduncle, a bishop.
Suzanne Morrison: Show Me the Sex Suzanne Morrison 2010
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