co-uncle
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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of a man, an uncle of one's niece or nephew who is not one's brother; a co-brother-in-law as common uncle to the children of two men's married siblings.
— Cicero continued however to write anxiously to Atticus, his co-uncle, about the young man's remarkable gifts and unsatisfactory character. [Cicero's younger brother married Atticus's sister, and the couple had a son Quintus; Cicero and Atticus were thus co-uncles to Quintus, the nephew they had in common]
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a man's brother, as uncle in common to the children of a third sibling
— My nephew came up for the summer with my brother and co-uncle George.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
* co- + uncle
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