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UNCLE
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (dialectal, Scotland): eam, eme
Antonyms
• (with regard to gender): aunt
• (with regard to ancestry): niece, nephew
• (African-American): boy
• (India): aunty
Hypernyms
• (sibling of someone's parent) pibling
Hyponyms
• (brother of someone’s father): paternal uncle
• (brother of someone’s mother): maternal uncle
• (uncle gained by marriage): uncle-in-law
Interjection
uncle
A cry used to indicate surrender.
Verb
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.
Anagrams
• 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
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