co-uncle
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co-uncle
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* co- + uncle
noun co-uncles
- 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 c
- 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.
Similar: co-brother-in-law
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Similar: co-brother-in-law
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title = {co-uncle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/co-uncle},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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