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
19 April 2024
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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
