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单词 grand-nephew
释义

grand-nephewn.

Brit. /ˈɡran(d)ˌnɛfjuː/, /ˈɡran(d)ˌnɛvjuː/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)ˌnɛfju/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grand- comb. form, nephew n.
Etymology: < grand- comb. form + nephew n.
A son of one's nephew or niece; a great-nephew.In North American use grand-nephew is approximately as common as (and was formerly slightly commoner than) great-nephew (which is usual in British use); grand-nephew is much more common in Irish English than in most other varieties.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > nephew or niece > [noun] > nephew > son of one's nephew or niece
grand-nephew1596
1596 T. Danett in tr. P. de Commynes Hist. 381 The said Ianes grand nephew by Margaret hir yoonger sister.
1651 I. Walton Life of Wotton in H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ sig. c9 My two Grand-nephews Albert Morton..and Thomas Bargrave.
1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. v. viii. 205 Whatever Veneration was paid to the Grand-Nephew of Cæsar, this Deification did not fail to provoke some to rally him.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 166 Her hopeful grand-nephew happily conceived the immunities and privileges of gentility to consist of idleness and field-sports.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xxix I'll have you out, were you twenty times my grand-nephew.
1906 Bar & Buffet June 11/4 The business founded 100 years ago..is now conducted in Vienna by Franz Lahner, a grand nephew of the original Frankfurter sausage man.
1948 ‘A. Hepple’ House of Gow ii. 20 There was, he had heard, only a weakling of a grand-nephew left.
2010 N. O'Sullivan Aloysius O'Kelly iii. 81 According to his grand nephew, O'Kelly was poisoned..by his servant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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