My great-uncle speaks Frisian.
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Great-uncle
Synonyms for "great-uncle" (20 found)
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60 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πρόθειος noun (uncle of one's parent)
Catalan
1 entries- besoncle noun (uncle of one's parent)
Chinese
3 entries- 伯公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 叔公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 舅公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 伯公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 叔公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 外伯公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 外叔公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 伯公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 伯祖 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 伯祖父 noun (uncle of one's parent)
- 叔公 noun (uncle of one's parent)
Czech
1 entries- prastrýc noun (uncle of one's parent)
Dutch
1 entries- oudoom noun (uncle of one's parent)
Esperanto
1 entries- praonklo noun (uncle of one's parent)
Finnish
2 entries- isoeno noun (uncle of one's parent)
- isosetä noun (uncle of one's parent)
French
1 entries- grand-oncle noun (uncle of one's parent)
Galician
1 entries- tío avó noun (uncle of one's parent)
German
4 entries- Grossoheim noun (uncle of one's parent)
- Grossonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
- Großoheim noun (uncle of one's parent)
- Großonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
Ido
2 entries- preonklo noun (uncle of one's parent)
- preonklulo noun (uncle of one's parent)
Irish
1 entries- seanuncail noun (uncle of one's parent)
Italian
1 entries- prozio noun (uncle of one's parent)
Japanese
1 entries- 大叔父 noun (uncle of one's parent)
Latin
3 entries- avunculus noun (uncle of one's parent)
- avunculus magnus noun (uncle of one's parent)
- patruus magnus noun (uncle of one's parent)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- stary wujk noun (uncle of one's parent)
Macedonian
1 entries- пра́чичко noun (uncle of one's parent)
Malay
1 entries- datuk saudara noun (uncle of one's parent)
Navajo
2 entries- acheii noun (uncle of one's parent)
- análí noun (uncle of one's parent)
Norman
1 entries- grand-oncl'ye noun (uncle of one's parent)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- filleonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
- grandonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- grandonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
Portuguese
1 entries- tio-avô noun (uncle of one's parent)
Romanian
1 entries- străunchi noun (uncle of one's parent)
Russian
1 entries- двою́родный дед noun (uncle of one's parent)
Slovene
1 entries- prastric noun (uncle of one's parent)
Spanish
1 entries- tío abuelo noun (uncle of one's parent)
Swedish
3 entries- gammelfarbror noun (uncle of one's parent)
- gammelmorbror noun (uncle of one's parent)
- gammelonkel noun (uncle of one's parent)
Ukrainian
1 entries- двою́рідний дід noun (uncle of one's parent)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- wulki wuj noun (uncle of one's parent)
- wulkowuj noun (uncle of one's parent)
Welsh
2 entries- hen ewythr noun (uncle of one's parent)
- hen wncwl noun (uncle of one's parent)
Sample sentences
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Stan is Dipper and Mabel's great-uncle.
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Tom is my great-uncle.
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My great-uncle was a humourless man.
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