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GREAT-UNCLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does great-uncle mean?
• GREAT-UNCLE (noun)
The noun GREAT-UNCLE has 1 sense:
1. an uncle of your father or mother
Familiarity information: GREAT-UNCLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An uncle of your father or mother
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
granduncle; great-uncle
Hypernyms ("great-uncle" is a kind of...):
uncle (the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt)
Context examples
Put them next to your great-uncle the judge.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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