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Definition of Great-nephew
1. Noun. A son of your niece or nephew.
Definition of Great-nephew
1. Noun. Grandson of one's sibling or sibling's spouse, son of one’s nephew or niece, one's sibling's child's male child. ¹
2. Noun. One's son’s or daughter's nephew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great-nephew
Literary usage of Great-nephew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary (1873)
"It has upon it two recumbent effigies, namely, those of Sir Thomas and Lady
Wykeham, the great nephew and niece of William of Wykeham, whose heiress, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1826)
"His Lordship then states that, upon the marriage of his great nephew, Win.
Keppel Barrington, with the Hon. Jane-Eliz. Lid- del, (laughter of Thomas-Henry ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"His great-nephew, Peyton Randolph, born at Williamsburg, Va., in 1779, was a son
of Edmund Randolph, and long clerk of the Virginia supreme court, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"The Answer of Thomas Brailsford the younger, the [* 371] great nephew of the testator
... The person to contend that is Thomas Brailsford, the great nephew, ..."
5. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century.: Consisting by John Nichols (1828)
"His Lordship then states that, upon the marriage of his great nephew, William
Keppel Barrington, with the Honourable Jane-Elizabeth ..."
6. The Decline of the Roman Republic by George Long (1874)
"C. Octavius, Caesar's great nephew, was residing at Apollonia in Illyricum, where
he was prosecuting his studies and waiting to accompany the Dictator to ..."
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