What's the difference between grandaunt and grandniece?

Grandaunt


Definition:

  • (n.) The aunt of one's father or mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A maternal grandaunt also had preaxial polydactyly of the feet.
  • (2) Family history in one patient showed presence of abnormal hand movements, increasing spasticity and psychomotor retardation in a paternal great grandaunt who died at 7 years.

Grandniece


Definition:

  • (n.) The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are grandnieces of a normal member of a sibship which included four children with severe retardation and complete thyroid iodide organification defect.
  • (2) Abigail Disney, grandniece of Walt, has backed up Meryl Streep following the actor's recent comments about Walt Disney where she referred to him as a "gender bigot" and a member of an antisemitic lobbying organisation.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Painter and sculptor Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, grandniece of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum, Palm Beach, 1964.

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