Meaning of "great-aunt" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF GREAT-AUNT

great-aunt

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREAT-AUNT

Great-Aunt is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GREAT-AUNT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Aunt

An aunt is a person who is the sister or sister-in-law of a parent. Aunts are second-degree relatives and share 25% genetic overlap when they are the full sister of the parent. A half-aunt is a half-sister of one's parent and is a third-degree relative with 12.5% genetic overlap. If the aunt is a sister-in-law, direct genetic overlap will typically be less than 12.5%, as this person usually entered the family through marriage. A great-aunt is the sister or sister-in-law of a grandparent. The male equivalent of an aunt is an uncle, and the reciprocal relationship is that of a nephew or niece. "Aunt" may also be an honorific bestowed upon an individual of fictive kinship.

Definition of great-aunt in the English dictionary

The definition of great-aunt in the dictionary is an aunt of one's father or mother; sister of one's grandfather or grandmother.

TRANSLATION OF GREAT-AUNT

Find out the translation of great-aunt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of great-aunt from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «great-aunt» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 姑婆
• Translator English - Spanish: tía abuela
• English: great-aunt
• Translator English - Hindi: महान चाची
• Translator English - Arabic: عمة كبيرة
• Translator English - Russian: двоюродная бабушка
• Translator English - Portuguese: tia-avó
• Translator English - Bengali: দারুণ-চাচীর
• Translator English - French: grand-tante
• Translator English - Malay: Bibi besar
• Translator English - German: Großtante
• Translator English - Japanese: 大叔母
• Translator English - Korean: 대고모
• Translator English - Javanese: Gedhe-lik
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lớn - cô
• Translator English - Tamil: கொள்ளுப் அத்தை
• Translator English - Marathi: छान-चाची
• Translator English - Turkish: büyük teyze
• Translator English - Italian: prozia
• Translator English - Polish: ciotka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: двоюрідна бабуся
• Translator English - Romanian: mare - matusa
• Translator English - Greek: μεγάλη - θεία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: groot - tante
• Translator English - Swedish: gammelfaster
• Translator English - Norwegian: tante

QUOTES WITH «GREAT-AUNT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word great-aunt.

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Wendi Deng Murdoch

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT-AUNT»

Discover the use of great-aunt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to great-aunt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

My Great-Aunt Arizona

Gloria Houston's Joyous recounting of her great-aunt Arizona's quiet yet meaningful life reminds us of the magical place a special teacher can hold in our hearts.

Gloria Houston, 1997

Great Aunt Martha

A young girl cannot watch television, dance, or play with the dog because her parents think that a visiting great-aunt needs her rest.

Rebecca C. Jones, 1995

Great-Aunt Sophia's Lessons for Bombshells

This erotic romance features a PhD student who, inspired by her research on female sexual power, tests her skills against an unattainable man.

Lisa Cach, 2012

Tales of a Great Aunt: A Memoir

"It is the 8th day of May and I am trying to record a few memories of my childhood.

Judith Wright, 1998

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, 1995

The Admonishment of Vegetarian Great Aunt: Reflections on ...

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Saskia Eleonora Wieringa, 2007

Pearlie and Great Aunt Garnet

Hurly Burly! Pearlie's planning a surprise party for Opal, so there's only one place to go for all the trimmings - her Great Aunt Garnet's famous fairy shop in the old clock tower.

Wendy Harmer, 2014

Great-Aunt Gertrude Comes to Stay

New Way, renowned for its phonic focus and success with generations of children, has always been committed to a balanced phonic approach.

Hannie Truijens, 1992

My Great Aunt Phibian

A little boy and girl frog look forward to the annual visit of their Great-aunt Phibian, a kind of kooky--but always lots of fun--relative who has some particularly unusual abilities. On board pages.

Sherry Gerstein, 2007

Great-Aunt Gertrude and the Handbag Thief

Hannie Truijens. Chapter 2: The handbag thief When it stopped raining we went to the park. We didn't see that the man had followed us from the shop. In the park he ran past Great-aunt Gertrude and tried to pull the handbag off her shoulder.

Hannie Truijens, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREAT-AUNT»

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Letters Found in Cereal Box Show Rare Look at German POWs After …

Curtis Peters of Tennessee said his sister-in-law in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, found some 400 letters in the home of her great-aunt when she ... «ABC News, Jul 15»

For one tragic couple – and so many more – marriage equality came …

I couldn't help thinking of my great-aunt, Henrietta Bingham, whose tragic life in the early 20th century would have turned out so differently now. «Reuters Blogs, Jul 15»

Russia Can't Manage Pain

Renata Valeyeva, 8, rests her head against her great-aunt Natalia Sultanova's at a retreat for palliative-care patients being assisted by the Vera ... «Valley News, Jul 15»

Shade garden guru revisits topic for a new century

He was a hosta guy when hostas were your fussy great-aunt's plants, the ones you sidestepped at the garden center — if, indeed, the garden ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»

Warsaw girl celebrates first birthday while battling cancer

“She was diagnosed at nine months with cancer, and just had her first birthday on Saturday,” said her great-aunt Pearl Runfola. Paisley's ... «The Daily News Online, Jul 15»

Smiths Grove eatery in business over 50 years

His great-aunt sold the restaurant due to health reasons to Massey. "I tried to buy it, but I couldn't get a loan. The bank wouldn't loan me the ... «Paducah Sun, Jul 15»

St. Aug salutatorian from Algiers carries on family legacy

His great-aunt Velma La Salle-Spencer, owned two pharmacies in the 1960s: one in Algiers and one on the east bank. La Salle's pharmacy in ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»

This Week in Lincolnville: September comes too soon

My Grandmother, Cora Rackliff Rankin, and my great-aunt, Edna Rackliff, also spent summers there. In the next house along the road to the ... «PenBayPilot.com, Jul 15»

Don't shrink from downsizing your apartment, renters

Hiring a pro can help you part with memory-filled-but-ratty college T-shirts or that vase you hate gifted by your great-aunt. If that's not in your ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Spider-Man Fans against Marisa Tomei Being Cast as Aunt May

Another, though, felt it was just casting: "Aunt May was usually too old in the comics to be Peter's real aunt (Great-Aunt, yes). Marisa Tomei ... «AllMediaNY, Jul 15»