grandaunt
noun
an aunt of one's father or mother; great-aunt.
grandaunts
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pluralof grandaunt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When the two royal grandaunts, Queen Maud of Norway and Louise, Princess Royal, both sisters of the King, rode out to see the newborn unchristened Duchess, ill luck attended them.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Hamburg I was welcomed, too, by uncles and aunts, first and second cousins, male and female, and by a strong contingent of grandaunts.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
I'm going to stay with my grandaunts this summer.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett
I am sure that your grandaunts are even more glad to have you than I was sorry to let you go.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett
One of the grandaunts was a sister of Heinrich Heine, the poet.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
