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  • noun Alternative form of granduncle.

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Examples

  • Three of King's grandparents came from Ireland, but apart from a grand-uncle who fought for Irish independence in the early part of the last century, he was not from a family with any commitment to revolutionary politics in Ireland.

    Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate 2011

  • It concerns her grand-uncle or great-grand-uncle, I don't know which; and if there's anybody here can read Russian, why, it'll go into the details of that Siberian trip.

    CHAPTER 28 2010

  • He is a grand-uncle of former Senator Sam Nunn D-Ga.

    Henry J. Stern: September Surprise? Henry J. Stern 2011

  • He is a grand-uncle of former Senator Sam Nunn D-Ga.

    Henry J. Stern: September Surprise? Henry J. Stern 2011

  • He made efforts to open Bahrain's economy through the Economic Development Board, which he controls, and clashed with his grand-uncle over issues like more liberal foreign worker policies.

    Bahrain Arrests Opposition Leaders Nicholas Casey 2011

  • Three of King's grandparents came from Ireland, but apart from a grand-uncle who fought for Irish independence in the early part of the last century, he was not from a family with any commitment to revolutionary politics in Ireland.

    Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate 2011

  • I visited my grand-uncle on his 99th birthday and took a printed photograph of his family.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • I visited my grand-uncle on his 99th birthday and took a printed photograph of his family.

    Creative Frugality 2008

  • But this being Toobworld, where the wildest of coincidences are commonplace, I'd like to think that the outlaw Nate Phillips out West could have been either the grandfather or grand-uncle of the Nate Phillips back East.

    Archive 2009-03-22 Toby O'B 2009

  • It was in vain that his daughter said to him: “But he is your grandnephew, nevertheless,” — it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a grand-uncle.

    Les Miserables 2008

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