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great-uncle

[ greyt-uhng-kuhl ]

noun

  1. a granduncle.


great-uncle

noun

  1. an uncle of one's father or mother; brother of one's grandfather or grandmother
“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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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.

From BBC

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.

His grandfather and his great-uncle were racing in the early 1950s.

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