Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A son of one's nephew or niece.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A son of one's nephew or niece: correlative to granduncle and grandaunt.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The grandson of one's brother or sister.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a son of your niece or nephew
Examples
“Drawing from handwritten notes by Bram Stoker, the horror author’s great-grandnephew is set to pen a Dracula sequel entitled Dracula: The Un-Dead.”
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“Aunt Hetty Vanderveer who was queer and going on to eighty, who couldn't live with a relative for they always wanted to borrow her money, got tangled up in a house on which she had a mortgage, and called her grandnephew, Mr. John Borden to her rescue.”
“You seem to forget that I am her nephew that is, her grandnephew.”
“One of the chicest new addresses is close to the Trocadéro, at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, transformed recently into the Shangri-La Hotel.”
“Jean Cazals for The Wall Street Journal BUZZY PARIS: One of the chicest new addresses to partake in afternoon tea is at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, recently transformed into the Shangri-La Hotel.”
“In 1938 he traveled to Austria from Paris vainly hoping to convince the government to appoint Franz Josef's grandnephew as chancellor.”
“The company is surviving by importing oysters from Texas and selling them unopened to clients, says Sal Sunseri, the company's vice president and grandnephew of its founder.”
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“Just reading some abbreviated news article about how the great grandnephew of Bram Stoker had co-authored the book, I cringed.”
“This includes the head of the Stock Exchange, the head of the Financial Services Authority, and even the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, who is a grandnephew of the former Archbishop of Malta.”
“When it came to expansion, the museum's board, chaired by Gardner's great-grandnephew Jack Gardner, would not "pull the trigger until May," Ms. Hawley says.”
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