AUNT

aunt, auntie, aunty

(noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

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.

Antonyms

• (with regard to gender) uncle

• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

Hyponyms

• (sister of someone's father) paternal aunt

• (sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt

Anagrams

• -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



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