uncle
(noun) the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
uncle
(noun) a source of help and advice and encouragement; “he played uncle to lonely students”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uncle (plural uncles)
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
(affectionate) The male cousin of one’s parent.
(euphemistic) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.
(figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
(British, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
(especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
(Southern US, slang, archaic) An older male African-American person.
• (dialectal, Scotland): eam, eme
• (with regard to gender): aunt
• (with regard to ancestry): niece, nephew
• (African-American): boy
• (India): aunty
• (sibling of someone's parent) pibling
• (brother of someone’s father): paternal uncle
• (brother of someone’s mother): maternal uncle
• (uncle gained by marriage): uncle-in-law
uncle
A cry used to indicate surrender.
uncle (third-person singular simple present uncles, present participle uncling, simple past and past participle uncled)
(transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.
(intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
• Clune
Source: Wiktionary
Un"cle, n. Etym: [OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr. L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather; akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw grandmother, Icel. ai great grandfather.]
1. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
2. A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
