What's the difference between grandnephew and grandniece?
Grandnephew
Definition:
(n.) The grandson of one's brother or sister.
Example Sentences:
(1) This includes the head of the Stock Exchange, the head of the Financial Services Authority, and even the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, who is a grandnephew of the former Archbishop of Malta.
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.