grandnephew
IPA: grˈændnˈɛfju
noun
- A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)
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Examples of "grandnephew" in Sentences
- "You seem to forget that I am her nephew that is, her grandnephew.
- Just reading some abbreviated news article about how the great grandnephew of Bram Stoker had co-authored the book, I cringed.
- In 1938 he traveled to Austria from Paris vainly hoping to convince the government to appoint Franz Josef's grandnephew as chancellor.
- Drawing from handwritten notes by Bram Stoker, the horror author’s great-grandnephew is set to pen a Dracula sequel entitled Dracula: The Un-Dead.
- When it came to expansion, the museum's board, chaired by Gardner's great-grandnephew Jack Gardner, would not "pull the trigger until May," Ms. Hawley says.
- The company is surviving by importing oysters from Texas and selling them unopened to clients, says Sal Sunseri, the company's vice president and grandnephew of its founder.
- One of the chicest new addresses is close to the Trocadéro, at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, transformed recently into the Shangri-La Hotel.
- This includes the head of the Stock Exchange, the head of the Financial Services Authority, and even the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, who is a grandnephew of the former Archbishop of Malta.
- Jean Cazals for The Wall Street Journal BUZZY PARIS: One of the chicest new addresses to partake in afternoon tea is at the former residence of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew Prince Roland, recently transformed into the Shangri-La Hotel.
- Aunt Hetty Vanderveer who was queer and going on to eighty, who couldn't live with a relative for they always wanted to borrow her money, got tangled up in a house on which she had a mortgage, and called her grandnephew, Mr. John Borden to her rescue.
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