Definition of GRANDNEPHEW
- ️Tue Feb 18 2025
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The exhibition — which debuts Saturday night with a free opening night party, complete with a DJ set by Flying Lotus (Coltrane’s grandnephew, Steven Ellison) — is on view from Sunday through May 4.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Dear Eric: My husband and I live on a lake and love hosting our grandnieces and grandnephews on school breaks and the entire family on vacations.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2024
Courtesy of Les Sources de Caudalie The former residence of Prince Roland Bonaparte, Napoleon’s grandnephew, Shangri-La Paris was transformed into a 100-room hotel in 2010.
—Mary Winston Nicklin, AFAR Media, 15 Jan. 2025
Around 1955, George Washington’s great-great-great-great grandnephew, a lawyer for the utility, helped broker a deal: The region’s richer areas helped fund dam construction, but in return locked in cheap hydropower for half a century.
—Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1596, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of grandnephew was in 1596
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“Grandnephew.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandnephew. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025 - Updated example sentences
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