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Grandnephew   Listen
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Grandnephew  n.  The grandson of one's brother or sister.






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"Grandnephew" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Townshend family. He tells us that Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was "nephew of the Prime Minister, and son of a peer who was Secretary of State, and leader of the House of Lords." [iii. 368.] Charles Townshend was not nephew, but grandnephew, of the Duke of Newcastle, not son, but grandson, of the Lord Townshend who was Secretary of State, and leader of ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... has many and many another plotter in history before and since—reckoned without their host. They did not know the mettle that was in this grandnephew of the great Gustavus. ...
— The Junior Classics • Various



Words linked to "Grandnephew" :   great-nephew, nephew



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