great-uncle
24
2.3
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪtˌʌŋkəl/
:
tío abuelo
- Every summer, I visited my great-uncle, who told me about our family history.
His brother, my great uncle Howard was my granddad's hero.
- His brother, my great uncle Howard was my granddad's hero.
- It's so it will be a cousin because it's a great uncle's son.
- And my great uncle was the smartest guy in our family.
- And I, she, she has a brother, had a brother named Leo, so he would have been my great uncle.
- In case you missed that, we found out that Gallup's mom Millie is Benox great grandma, which makes Gallop his great uncle, AKA his Grunkle.
- So she's like, you know, my great Uncle Victor Frankenstein had these crazy journals and they look like the writings of a madman.
- Loved ones, great grandparents, great uncles see my dad dying.
- Well, it's narrator, great uncle Lagrosse Castro.
- So there was her grand her, her great uncle trying to kill me and my people.
- My grandfather also retired and my Uncle Ernie, great Uncle Ernie, another one of the brothers retired.
- And my Uncle Hubert is my great uncle on my adopted mother's side, the Lemri's family.
- I'm so fucking high that I think that this that my uncle or great uncle's trying to bang my chick and I don't even know if we were banging.
Examples
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For example, one student interviewed his great-uncle who served in World War II.
Academic text (1993) -
And my great uncle was the smartest guy in our family.
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And while we were there, this great uncle passed away.
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This is your great uncle.
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Before he became a school teacher, a great uncle painted a big picture.
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Well, when I was 11 years old, I had this really great uncle who taught me all this neat stuff.
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I had a great uncle who lived to be 102.
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But he already had family here-- your great-uncle.
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The last stop had been with the family of her great-uncle, a salesman who traveled a lot.
Fiction book (1997) -
My mom's great uncle was a Jesuit priest.
Synonyms
2
6.5
The brother of one of your grandparents
How Close
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1.0
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2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Great-uncle is simply great plus uncle. The great part shows 'one generation further', so a great-uncle is the brother of your grandparent and therefore your parent's uncle, just like great-grandfather shows one generation back.