grandaunt
/grand-ant, -ahnt/US // ˈgrændˌænt, -ˌɑnt //UK // (ˈɡrændˌɑːnt) //
祖母,婆婆,外婆,姑姑
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an aunt of one's father or mother; great-aunt.
Examples
Larissa and I worked with a borrowed recipe from a friend’s grandaunt, matching it against my mama’s trusted and well-thumbed Joyce Fernandes cookbook.
It had belonged to her grandaunt, the nun, Madelaine de Repentigny, and was kept as an heirloom in her family.
Betty was almost as tall and only a little more quick and graceful than her grandaunt.
Grandaunt made over her share of the farm to him, and he cares for all of us.
It is my gift to you, grandaunt, bought with the money uncle left me.
It is strange, said grandaunt Guion, that Barbe has no lover.
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