great-nephew

1. 1.

   a son of your niece or nephew

   Synonymsgrandnephew

   Broadernephew

Questions about great-nephew

What does great-nephew mean?

great-nephew means "a son of your niece or nephew".

How many syllables are in great-nephew?

great-nephew has 4 syllables: gre-at--ne-phew. The stress falls on "at-".

What is another word for great-nephew?

Close synonyms include grandnephew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is great-nephew a common word?

great-nephew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.