Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brother of one's grandparent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The brother of a grandfather or grandmother. In Great Britain generally granduancle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an uncle of one's father or mother.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
brother orbrother-in-law of one’sgrandparent ; theuncle of one'sparent .
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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Was my great-uncle Brendan related to St. Brendan, the intrepid Irish monk who may have sailed to Newfoundland in the eighth century?
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Her great-uncle had wanted to marry a girl from Elmville way back when, and she ran away and was never seen again.
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The oldest sister, Sarah, got greatly involved in tinsel painting and resurrected the stencils of their great-uncle, Bill Crowell.
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My great-uncle Rudolf, his wife Magarete and their children Klara and Klaus-Martin, were some of the others.
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein: Kristallnacht Anniversary Has Special Meaning This Year
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When childhood tales of that great-uncle never returning from post-war Soviet imprisonment pulsed again in his mind as they had done, faintly though steadily, since he'd arrived in the city, Connie laid down his knife and fork and brought a hand up to his chin, hoping his arm would be enough to obstruct the Goethe-Institut emblem across his chest.
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
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Obama's great-uncle was part of an Army division that liberated the Ohrdruf forced labor camp, a subdivision of Buchenwald.
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Reminds me of a funny comment a great-uncle shared, that as a boy he came home from school and proudly announced, "I'm the smartest one in the dumb row!"
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
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Riga gave them this, especially Connie, who knew it not as the Latvian capital but rather as the infamous postmark from which the final letter from a long-lost great-uncle was mailed in 1944.
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