granduncle

[ grand-uhng-kuhl ]

noun

1. an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.

granduncle

/ ˈɡrændˌʌŋkəl /

noun

1. another name for great-uncle

Word History and Origins

Origin of granduncle¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See grand-, uncle

Example Sentences

Her son Greenleaf, to whom when four years of age his granduncle inscribed the poem "A Name," now resides here.

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Leon threw himself frantically before his granduncle, and received at least one bullet which would not otherwise have missed him.

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There were four verses, and she was on the last when the door opened stealthily and her granduncle, old Luke Basset, entered.

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While in London I met your granduncle, and from him I learned your history, and a bad one it is.

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Old Chatterton, the vicechancellor, is his granduncle or his greatgranduncle.

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