great-uncle
noun
a granduncle.
great-uncles
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pluralof great-uncle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A few years later, while an undergraduate at the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Languages, Kurkov learned he had had two great-uncles who were sent to the Gulag in the 1930s.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky has often told his "story of four brothers" - his grandfather and three great-uncles - all of whom fought in the Soviet Army against Nazi Germany.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
“My great-uncles were four-man pilots. My dad was training, he was an Olympic hopeful, in four-man. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just in my DNA.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
One of my great-uncles tried to convince people he’d found a volcano in the swamps of Wakulla County.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2020
Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom?
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
