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