uncle
(noun) the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
uncle
(noun) a source of help and advice and encouragement; āhe played uncle to lonely studentsā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uncle (plural uncles)
The brother or brother-in-law of oneās parent.
(affectionate) The male cousin of oneās 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 someoneās father): paternal uncle
• (brother of someoneās 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
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; āa critical readingā; āa critical dissertationā; āa critical analysis of Melvilleās writingsā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
