grand-uncle

See also: granduncle and grand uncle

English

Noun

grand-uncle (plural grand-uncles)

  1. Alternative form of granduncle
    • 2008, Shahar, Meir, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2007032532, OCLC 602911450, page 125:
      When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
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