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grandnephew
[ gran-nef-yoo, -nev-yoo, grand- ]
grandnephew
/ -ˌnɛfjuː; ˈɡrænˌnɛvjuː; ˈɡrænd- /
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Origin of grandnephew1
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Example Sentences
He was the only surviving blood-relative of Paul Jones in this country, being his great-grandnephew.
Colonel Washington was a great-grandnephew of George Washington.
This captain was a grandnephew of Sir John Suckling the poet, and one of the great men of the family—himself acknowledging it.
"So you are my grandnephew," he said, holding out what Charlie considered to be a very limp and flabby hand towards him.
Whittier's grandnephew, to again break the omen, took his plate over to the table in the corner with his mother.
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