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Great-uncle

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Noun
  1. 1
    An uncle of one's parent (i.e. a brother or brother-in-law of one's grandparent).
  2. 2
    an uncle of your father or mother wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English gret-uncle, grete uncle, grete ouncle, equivalent to great- + uncle.

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