The Collaborative International Dictionary
great-nephew \great-nephew\ n. a son of a niece or nephew.
Syn: grandnephew.
Wiktionary
n. 1 grandson of one's sibling or sibling's spouse, son of one’s nephew or niece, one's sibling's child's male child. 2 One's son’s or daughter's nephew.
WordNet
n. a son of your niece or nephew [syn: grandnephew]
Usage examples of "great-nephew".
Not that he had been anything like Alder or Dogal, but he surely had the advantage of a few inches over his great-nephew, both in height and circumference.
So there was Emily Kane, sitting very upright in her chair at the end of the table, with Joe Mansell, a heavy man with gross features and a hearty laugh, seated on one side of her, and on the other, her great-nephew Clement, the very antithesis of Joe Mansell but equally displeasing to her.
The Trayce ladies were ensconced in the personal traveling chariot of their great-nephew, the Marquess of Ashart.
But Abu Musa, decisively shameless in old age, at once hoisted up the skirts of his galabieh and went wading boldly into the shallows to amble away the entire morning, playing with sticks and squealing and launching toy rafts on the currents, as delighted in the miracle of flowing water as the youngest of his great-nephews would have been.
They were all on military service somewhere outside Rome, from Titus Pomponius to various nephews and great-nephews of his deceased patron and his own cousins.
She began with a question about the literature studied at the Academy—one of her great-nephews had said no one there read Siilvaas—was that true?