aunt, auntie, aunty
(noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aunt (plural aunts)
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
(affectionate) The female cousin of one’s parent.
(affectionate) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
(obsolete) Any elderly woman.
(obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
• (with regard to gender) uncle
• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew
• (sister of someone's father) paternal aunt
• (sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt
• -naut, Tuna, naut., tuan, tuna
Source: Wiktionary
Aunt, n. Etym: [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 April 2025
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