Meaning of aunt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
2. the sister of one's father or mother, or the wife of one's uncle. My Aunt Anne died last week; The child went to the circus with her aunt. tante عَمّـه، خالَه، زَوجَة العَم أو الخال леля tia teta die Tante tante θείαtía tädi عمه؛ خاله؛ زن عمو؛ زن دایی täti tanteדודה चाची, मामी, मौसी, फूफी teta nagynéni bibi föður– eða móðursystir; kona föður– eða móðurbróður zia おば 고모, 이모 teta tante; krustmāte mak saudara tantetanteciotka ترور، خاله ، د تره ښځه tia mătuşă тётя teta teta tetka, ujna; strina fa...
3. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
4. an aunt. Auntie Jean; Where's your auntie? tante, tannie عُمَيمَه، خُوَيلَه леличка titia tetička die Tante tante θεία, θείτσαtita tädi عمه؛ خاله؛ زن عمو؛ زن دایی täti tataדודה चाची, मामी, मौसी, फूफी tetica (nagy)nénikém Bibi frænka zietta おばちゃん 아줌마 tetulė krustmāmiņa makcik tantetanteciocia عمه ، خاله ، د تره ښځه titi mătuşică тетушка tetuška tetica tetkica, ujnica faster, moster, [lilla] tant พี่หรือน้องสาวของแม่หรือพ่อ hala, teyze, yenge aunt 的暱稱 тітка ان رشتوں کے کو مخاطب کرنے کے لئے ، یا...
5. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
   endearing
6. The sister of one's father or mother.
7. Any elderly woman.
   obsolete
8. Used as a form of address for an older woman, especially by children.
9. A procuress or bawd.
   obsolete
10. a sister of one's father or mother
11. the wife of one's uncle
12. a term of address used by children for any woman, esp for a friend of the parents
13. my aunt! my sainted aunt! an exclamation of surprise or amazement
14. the wife of one's uncle.
15. Chiefly New Eng. and South Midland U.S. (used as a term of respectful address to an older woman unrelated to the speaker.)

Equivalents

Examples

“As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.”

“I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.”

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