GREAT-AUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great-aunt mean? 

• GREAT-AUNT (noun)
  The noun GREAT-AUNT has 1 sense:

1. an aunt of your father or mother

  Familiarity information: GREAT-AUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT-AUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aunt of your father or mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

grandaunt; great-aunt

Hypernyms ("great-aunt" is a kind of...):

aunt; auntie; aunty (the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle)

 Context examples 

I wonder, said Peggotty, who was sometimes seized with a fit of wondering on some most unexpected topic, what's become of Davy's great-aunt?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean. I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too," answered Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)