Definition of grandnephew
:a grandson of one's brother or sister
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After his Breakfast Club appearance, someone on Twitter did offer a valid explanation for Shoemake’s claims: Why would Frederick Douglass’ grandnephew do this?
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That made his grandnephew Tyler Melnicove laugh out loud.
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Besides her niece, she is survived by nephew Harold Burnley, and many grandnieces, grandnephews, and cousins.
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The judge’s order releasing Dr. Lifschutz was delivered by his 27-year-old lawyer, Nicholas S. Freud, who was a great-grandnephew of the father of psychoanalysis.
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And how’s this for complex family dynamics: Alex Tyng wrote her dissertation on her father’s work, then ended up marrying his grandnephew.
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Burns gained a niece in Florida and nephews in New York and Tennessee as well as a number of grandnieces and grandnephews.
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Alexandrowka is a cluster of wooden cabins bedecked with Slavic folk carvings and was assembled in 1826 by Frederick William III, grandnephew of Frederick the Great, as a colony for Russian soldiers.
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First Known Use of grandnephew
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