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granduncle

[ grand-uhng-kuhl ]

noun

  1. an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.


granduncle

/ ˈɡrændˌʌŋkəl /

noun

  1. another name for great-uncle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of granduncle1

1400–50; late Middle English. See grand-, uncle
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Example Sentences

Her son Greenleaf, to whom when four years of age his granduncle inscribed the poem "A Name," now resides here.

Leon threw himself frantically before his granduncle, and received at least one bullet which would not otherwise have missed him.

There were four verses, and she was on the last when the door opened stealthily and her granduncle, old Luke Basset, entered.

While in London I met your granduncle, and from him I learned your history, and a bad one it is.

Old Chatterton, the vicechancellor, is his granduncle or his greatgranduncle.

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