What is "granduncle"

Usage examples of "granduncle".

I saw him myself, helping my granduncle, the great Smrgol of revered memory, destroy the traitor Bryagh.

These, however, no longer live at home, but with their granduncle, Bernard van Zestien, father of Derde and Sweyn, and brother to Binnen.

The granduncle is a diamond merchant, with contacts, of course, in his native city, but it seems he has a house in North Norfolk and an office in Hatton Garden.

The granduncle is head of the family of van Zestien and apparently stinkingly wealthy.

Florian realise that he would be offending his granduncle by prancing over to Amsterdam like that?

He would live at Leyden Hall and travel to Norwich each day in the car which his granduncle was giving him as a token that all was forgiven and forgotten.

Unfortunately, Granduncle Reuben was very old-fashioned and straitlaced, and did not altogether trust the modern generation.

Old Chatterton, the vicechancellor, is his granduncle or his greatgranduncle.

Start with the arch of Domitian on the Corso, then go to the column of Trajan, after that see the Capitoline collection of bronzes that my granduncle, Sixtus IV, started.

Acrisius, he wages war on his granduncle, Proetus, who drove Acrisius away by force of arms and seized his citadel.

The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

Tough, taciturn old men, most of them honorary granduncles, dying one by one as she grew toward adulthood.

Guys and gals from his high school keep coming round to visit, and Bobby soon learns the trick that his father and his uncles and granduncles all knew, which is that you never talk about the specifics of what happened over there.