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 

• GREAT-UNCLE (noun)

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)