granduncle

Questions about granduncle

What is another word for granduncle?

It depends which granduncle you mean. In the sense “an uncle of your father or mother”, the synonyms are great-uncle. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of granduncle?

WordNet records no antonym for granduncle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for granduncle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of granduncle

• Full entry for granduncleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for granduncleWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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