Definition of "great-uncles" [great-uncles]

• Plural form of great-uncle. (noun)

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• "In an oral history compiled by the Minnesota Historical Society, one of my great-uncles, Nick, who fought and was wounded on both Guam and Okinawa, described the cruel gratifications of using napalm at close range: The Japanese would come out of those caves with their skin and clothes and everything burning."
• "But as I turned the bend, I saw a cluster of black bodies moving up the hill, and with my great-uncles .22 Hornet, harvested my first turkey."
• "When I was a girl, I lived with my mother, but I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandparents and my great-aunts and great-uncles in our family's antiques store in Los Angeles Chinatown."