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great-uncle
[greyt-uhng-kuhl]
noun
a granduncle.
great-uncle
noun
an uncle of one's father or mother; brother of one's grandfather or grandmother
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Example Sentences
Instead, he just looks like one of my great-uncles who are obsessed with poker.
He was off to see his great-uncle Pudge in the old sailor’s home, in Brighton.
As Penelope already knew, Simon’s great-uncle Pudge was very old and had been a seafarer in his youth; now he lived in a home for old sailors in the city of Brighton, near the sea.
“What a coincidence that your great-uncle was acquainted with him.”
He worked as a page for great-uncle Ted Kennedy and family friend John Kerry.
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