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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Up until three years ago, his parents, grandparents, great-uncles, great-grandparents and his cousin all lived there together.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023
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
“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
Caruso’s Grocery is the principals’ most personal statement yet; the place is named for a store Babin’s Sicilian great-uncles and paternal grandmother operated in Baton Rogue.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
She runs her own computer consulting business out of an old house on Schuyler Place that she inherited from her two great-uncles.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
