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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
Example Sentences
His great-uncle had no phone and no social media, and Ko Naing would help him check updates on the civil war.
Her great-uncle had issued a mandate from his village that they would not mourn his sister’s death in typical Zambian fashion: No one would sleep over at the house; no one would wail in sorrow.
He said that in the past six years, his great-uncle and great-uncle's son were killed by Congolese soldiers and local militia fighters.
Fiennes was raised Catholic, born into a family where his great-uncle and uncle were both theologians.
When he was at Pacific Union College in the 1980s, Wilcox liked to visit a Russian great-uncle who owned goats.
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