great-aunt
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪt ˌɔnt/
:
tía abuela
- They let me visit my great aunt Becky, my only surviving relative.
Well, I had a great aunt who talked to cars.
- Well, I had a great aunt who talked to cars.
- I guarantee if you look at your hands, you'll see your mum's hands there, or your dad's hands or your great Aunt Gertrude's hands.
- My grandmother's mother, I'm pretty sure had about seven or eight siblings that could have been my future, like great aunts and uncles who I never got to meet.
- And I remember my mom and I living with my great aunts and, you know, wanting something as simple as they were all in rocking chairs.
- One such OP is my great aunt Betty, Dee's only living child.
- I read Aunt, my great Aunt Betsy.
- In almost all of my books there's a great aunt character I have.
- But Lauren is not the only person who's receiving sorries from this great aunt.
Examples
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But so growing up, I had a great aunt who was that your typical Midwestern lady.
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Your great-aunt is a very impressive person.
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So now for me it's that my great aunt is gone.
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So, you bought this place from your great aunt when she retired?
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Henry, you must be very excited to spend some time in your great aunt's house.
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I went there once when I was seven to visit a great-aunt.
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"The house doesn't add up." "I inherited it from a great-aunt, my grandfather's sister."
Fiction book (1997) -
This weekend, starting tonight, the entire Abbot family... is gathering for the wedding at the estate of Larry's great-aunt.
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My great aunt Nuneen set my hair in rags to make perfect banana curls.
Academic text (2011) -
Henry, you must be very excited to spend some time in your great-aunt's house.
Synonyms
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7.4
A sister of one of your grandparents
How Distant
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3.0
604
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word great-aunt puts great before aunt to show an aunt from the generation of your grandparents — she is the sister of your grandparent. So, great marks an 'extra generation back', which is why a great-aunt is your parent's aunt.