Definition of "grand-aunt" [grand-aunt]

• Alternative form of grandaunt. (noun)

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• "And it gave me the creeps, when I was a boy, to go into that big, for-ever-twilight room of hers, and know that in this jar was all that remained of my maternal grand-aunt, and that in that jar was my great-grandfather, and that in all the jars were the preserved bone-remnants of the shadowy dust of the ancestors whose seed had come down and been incorporated in the living, breathing me."
• "Marjorie, a sprightly 92, my late grandfather's sister in law, aka my step great-aunt, or step grand-aunt -- or would it be ex-step-great-aunt because our connection is no longer with us?"
• "The youngest of the three was to receive from a grand-aunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to succeed to the peerage of his grandfather."