Crossword clues for grandaunt
grandaunt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandaunt \Grand"aunt"\, n. [Cf. F. grand'tante.] The aunt of one's father or mother.
Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) The aunt of one’s parent; a great-aunt. n. (context US English) The aunt of one’s parent; a great-aunt.
WordNet
n. an aunt of your father or mother [syn: great-aunt]
Usage examples of "grandaunt".
After a century and a half of rising with the sun as she studied the Arcs from her grandaunt Larissa, she willfully indulged herself in waking up slowly.
Gena smiled as she remembered something her grandaunt used to say when speaking of Neal.
At various times, as she had grown up, her grandfather and grandaunt had both mentioned that the gods were perverse and would do all they could to make life miserable for mere mortals.
It is a small painting made from the time when Beltran, the Red Tiger, feted Neal, here in Jarudin, and your grandfather and grandmother and grandaunt were here.
I do either, fully, but Larissa, my grandaunt, used to provide me with examples while she worked and taught me.
She wore the same sort of white cotton gown Larissa had demanded she wear on their visits, and she had gathered her hair back into a thick braid as her grandaunt had done.
She knew they defined Neal and that it had been created by him, but its association with her grandaunt made it so much more to her.
Gena wondered if, when Larissa went beyond, she had decided her grandaunt had abandoned Neal.
Though her grandaunt had never spoken of her feelings for Neal, she never had to.
She looked enough like her grandaunt that I was reminded of the person I had now lost.
She knew, in part, that her willingness to participate came from the fact that if she were successful, she would have done something her grandaunt, her mentor, had been unwilling and unable to attempt.
She looked too much like her grandaunt to me, which meant I kept thinking back to times Larissa and I had spent together, trying to remember if I had seen that expression or heard those words before.
She compared favorably with her grandaunt, yet because Larissa was untouchable, there remained an aura of mystery around her that held her apart from me.
If she took what he said to her as the truth, she found herself in competition with her grandaunt, an idea she hated because she knew, ultimately, she would lose in that comparison.
I had felt in her grandaunt when Aarundel and Marta had been taken away.