aunt

Definition

  • noun: the sister of your father or mother or the wife of your uncle
  • noun: the sister of one's father or mother
  • synonyms: auntie, blood brother, brethren

Examples

  • Hundreds of people write in to the paper's 'agony aunt' [=('US') 'advice columnist'] every week.

  • He has three 'aunts' and two uncles.

  • This is my 'Aunt' Mary.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Do you know what that word means? It means when you dream about something that's gonna happen. Like one night, I had a dream... ...where this crow came and said: "Your aunt is gonna die." I was so scared, I woke up my parents... ...but they said it was just a dream and to get back to bed. But the next morning, my Aunt Stacy was dead. That's terrible. Terrible for her, but think about me, young boy with that kind of power. Wasn't three weeks later when the crow came back to me in a dream... (..)
    2003 Big Fish