grand-uncle

See also: granduncle and grand uncle

English

Noun

grand-uncle (plural grand-uncles)

1. Alternative form of granduncle
   • 2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts‎^[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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).