The Collaborative International Dictionary
great-uncle \great-uncle\ n. an uncle of one's father or mother.
Syn: granduncle.
Wiktionary
alt. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s grandparent; the uncle of one's parent. n. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s grandparent; the uncle of one's parent.
WordNet
n. an uncle of your father or mother [syn: granduncle]
Usage examples of "great-uncle".
Thereon I bade the Khania Atene, and that old magician her great-uncle, who is Guardian of the Gate, go down to the ancient gates of Kaloon to receive you and bring you hither with all speed.
One great-uncle, old Gideon Sheridan from Boonville, could not be found, and Bibbs went in search of him.
Neither her grandmother Rosene nor her great-uncle Gadman had ever let anyone forget that they and their descendants were royal kin.
Great-Uncle Olaf and his Thorsfinni entrepreneurship went through a series of endeavors, each of which he sold at a humongous profit.
Majesty, and your great-uncle, Edward the Black Prince of Wales, as 1 have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
Pimlico, the investigations of Cosset, Thring and Noble, the rescue by Great-uncle Charles, the ultimate facing of the facts and announcing them to the family, the family reaction.
Great-uncle Dicker advised me once in a kind of Arkie ode to optimism, go ahead and say it.
Devlin in Nabesna, Mac Devlin in Nabesna, your sister Ellen in Omaha just had her first grandchild, a boy, seven pounds, nine ounces, mother Lisa and boy, named Mackenzie for his great-uncle, both doing fine.
Julius Caesar was the great-uncle of Octavius Caesar, actually, but in his will Julius had adopted Octavius as his son, and Octavius therefore always refers to Julius as his father.
Talis, wandering badly, forced himself to listen to his great-uncle relate a complex incident that had happened last autumn, or the one ten years before, or some autumn before Talis was born.
With his Thorsfinniherring, Great-Uncle Haakon became one of the greatest fishing farmers in the North Atlantic.
My knowledge of the thing began in the winter of 1926-7 with the death of my great-uncle, George Gammell Angell, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages in Brown University Providence, Rhode Island.
All the chairs had little lace squares where one's head should rest, the couch was just comfortable, the books looked as if they had been read--some--and Sally Carrol had an instantaneous vision of the battered old library at home, with her father's huge medical books, and the oil-paintings of her three great-uncles, and the old couch that had been mended up for forty-five years and was still luxurious to dream in.
Al the chairs had little lace squares where one's head should rest, the couch was just comfortable, the books looked as if they had been read--some--and Sally Carrol had an instantaneous vision of the battered old library at home, with her father's huge medical books, and the oil-paintings of her three great-uncles, and the old couch that had been mended up for forty-five years and was still luxurious to dream in.
Dresyl, Yuli’s cousin-brother, Laintal Ay’s great-uncle, the father of Nahkri and Klils.