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

  • (..) Yeah. Fool. You have a defective carafe. Allow me to blot you. I will blot you. Idiot. I had an aunt who suffered from high blood pressure. She was attended successfully by Dr. August Balls of Nice. And after he had attended her for several weeks, she- (..)
    1975 The Return of the Pink Panther