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

  • (..) But there were several Bakarys in the neighbourhood so they called me Idriss... somehow it turned into Driss. Then what? Then out of nowhere my mother... I mean my aunt... she got pregnant twice. Then my uncle died. And then there were other guys, other children. I told you it's complicated. (..)
    2011 The Intouchables
  • (..) Is he your brother or not? Ok. I get it. All right. Let's go. My parents... they're not really my parents. They're my uncle and my aunt. They came to Senegal to get me when I was . They couldn't have children, so they went to see a brother who had a load of them. They took the elder. Me. (..)
    2011 The Intouchables