grand-auntn.
/ˌɡrand ˈɑːnt/, /ˈɡrand ɑːnt/, U.S. /ˌɡrænd ˈænt/, /ˌɡrænd ˈɑnt/ An aunt of one's father or mother; a great-aunt.grand-aunt is much less common than great-aunt, though it is commoner in Irish English than in most other varieties.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > aunt > [noun] > great- or grand-aunt
great-aunt1525
grand-aunt1675
1609 T. Pickering tr. W. Perkins Christian Oeconomie v. 31 The great grand-aunt by the same side.]
1675 W. Cunningham Diary 7 Dec. (1887) 62 For a hire of a mourning cloak at my Grandaunt Helen Napier's transportation and burriall.
1698 Rep. Confession E. Anderson in F. Grant Sadducismus Debellatus 38 Margaret Fulton (her Grand Aunt).
1761 Scots Mag. Sept. 490/1 She dined at a separate table with the Princess of Schwartzburg, her grandaunt.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 165 Tom..had had the good luck..to take the fancy of a rich relation, a grand-aunt.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xxxvii Various comments..were made on his beautiful grand-aunt.
1905 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 264/1 Grand-aunt supplies two long clays, the worthies light up, and at once commence discursive discussion.
1998 A. Chaudhuri Freedom Song (1999) 68 Of the two it was the younger, Sameer..who was the more openly demonstrative of his affection towards his grand-aunt.
2010 D. Byrne-Rothwell Byrnes & O'Byrnes II. iii. 82 Gerald visited Kingstown around 1888 where he met his spinster aunts..and his grand aunt Mary (1803–97).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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