great-uncle in English
As if all that weren't enough, Ross has a host of uncles and aunts, great-uncles and great aunts all thinking the world of him, too - as well as all his father Paul's relatives.
Use "great-uncle" in a sentence
1. You're my great-great-uncle.
2. Roscoe Conking Harris was my great uncle
3. My mom's great-uncle was a Jesuit priest.
4. Alderney is a distant relative of Great Uncle Bulgaria
5. Julius Caesar, his great-uncle, took an interest in Augustus
6. He was also the great uncle of the comedian Al Murray.
7. His great-uncle was Julius Caesar, who he fought beside in 47 B.C
8. We followed protocol and sent Cherry Li to stay with her great-uncle temporarily.
9. Your Ancestral home is the place your great-grandparents or great-great-uncle once lived
10. His great-uncle was Julius Caesar, who he fought beside in 47 B.C. Augustus impressed his great uncle so much during battle that when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 43 B.C., he had appointed Augustus as heir to his political and personal fortune in his will.
11. Octavian was adopted by his great-uncle Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, and then took the name Gaius Julius Caesar
12. Augustus or Octavius (as he was called until his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, adopted him) was born 23 September, 63 B.C
13. He appeared to me, reserved and Circumspect , a proud man whose great uncle had lost a leg for the Bolshivicks, aged seventeen.
14. When your great uncle Marvin became infirm in his later years, trying to distinguish between you and your cousins tended to Addle his brain.
15. In 1853, Ramphoei married her great-uncle Mongkut (who was 30 years her senior) and was raised to a Phra Ong Chao (a higher rank of princess).
16. Born Patricia Mountbatten, the Countess was the eldest daughter of Prince Charles ' beloved great-uncle and the last Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten, and his wife, Edwina
17. William Honing’s great-uncle and namesake came to London from Algarkirk in Lincolnshire, prospered as a merchant and purveyor and became a serjeant of the Acatery in the royal household
18. Augustus impressed his great uncle so much during battle that when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 43 B.C., he had appointed Augustus as heir to his political and personal fortune in his will.
19. Harold Arthur Argles (Dec 15th 1899 - May 20th 1929) "My great uncle, Harold Arthur Argles joined the crew of the Quest at Rio de Janeiro in the 1921-22 Shackleon-Rowett expedition
20. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet her status prevents her from the traditions of noble social standing
21. The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth century England.
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23. Eventually, through the George Washington Plunkett Apartments' grapevine — where someone knew someone on Bank Street in Greenwich Village who was the great-uncle of one of my mother's Blabbier girlfriends — Grandma Lil learned my mother had been keeping company with a guy whose first name sounded like Maumoon.
24. Dermot Brigant is Sookie Stackhouse's great uncle, Niall Brigant's son, and Fintan's fraternal twin brother in "The Southern Vampire Mysteries".He appears in the novels Dead and Gone, Dead in the Family and Dead Reckoning and said to look like he could be Jason's twin, and it is hard to tell them apart
25. (I thought I was a great Aunt before he was born, but that's another story.) I've heard several other families use the "great-Aunt" or "great-uncle" relationship when it's actually a "grand." What have you used in your family to describe the siblings of your grandparents' Note: We
26. Augustus, also called Augustus Caesar or (until 27 bce) Octavian, original name Gaius Octavius, adopted name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, (born September 23, 63 bce —died August 19, 14 ce, Nola, near Naples [Italy]), first Roman emperor, following the republic, which had been finally destroyed by the dictatorship of Julius Caesar, his great-uncle and adoptive father.
27. Claudius Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October 54 AD) was the fourth Roman Emperor.He ruled from 24 January 41 AD to his death in 54 AD.His great-uncle was the first Emperor Augustus, and his uncle was the second Emperor Tiberius.His nephew was the third Emperor, Caligula.His maternal grandfather was Mark Antony.
28. He was the uncle of Frank Longbottom and the great-uncle of Neville Longbottom.1 1 Biography 2 Etymology 3 Appearances 4 Notes and references Algie was born into the Longbottom family,1 an old British pure-blood family considered to be one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.2 He had one known sibling, a brother,1 and may have had others.3 The Longbottom