AUNT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of aunt in English auntnoun [ C ] uk /ɑːnt/ us /ænt/ /ɑːnt/ (informal auntie, aunty) Add to word list Add to word list A2 the sister of someone's father or mother, or the wife of someone's uncle or aunt: I have an aunt in Australia. This is my Aunt Camille. [ as form of address ] Do you want some tea, Aunt Alice? your relatives

• relativeAll my relatives gather every year for a family reunion.
• extended familyHe has a very large extended family.
• relationShe is a distant relation of his, though I don't quite remember how.
• kinHe remained true to his kin.
• mother's/father's side (of the family)I have aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family.

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• After my aunt died, we arranged for her house to be cleared .
• We're going to visit my aunt and uncle on Sunday .
• She has two rather aged aunts.
• She always behaves badly when her aunts come to visit.
• We used to spend the weekends at my aunt's cottage in the country.

Family: relations in general

• anti-family
• auntie
• baby daddy
• baby mama
• biologically
• family man
• family of something
• father
• father complex
• fatherhood
• kinship
• kinship network
• kinship term
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• relationally
• relationship
• relative
• removed
• second cousin

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aunt | American Dictionary

auntnoun [ C ] us /ænt, ɑnt/ Add to word list Add to word list the sister of someone’s mother or father, or the wife of someone’s uncle: We stopped off to visit my aunt and uncle in Boston. (Definition of aunt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of aunt

aunt For instance, a quarter of the working parents reported using their children's aunts, and 10 per cent, their children's uncles when they were at work. From the Cambridge English Corpus She projects, from the start, an alternative lesson, and at the end she pronounces her pride in being like her aunt. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the cases of uncles and aunts, childlessness may often have been a factor. From the Cambridge English Corpus The neighbors of ' aunt ' are ' uncle ', 'relative ' and ' relation'. From the Cambridge English Corpus Shortly after being hired, he constructed a thatched house of his own down the street from an aunt. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, other kin (parents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews) of diverse ages are frequently cited as significant network members. From the Cambridge English Corpus Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been a surrogate parent. From the Cambridge English Corpus The aunt reciprocates her niece's call for complicity. From the Cambridge English Corpus Consider the following example, in which an aunt is requesting her three-year-old nephew to talk. From the Cambridge English Corpus We may be generally reticent as to our uncles and aunts, and may drop even our brothers and sisters in our ordinary conversation. From the Cambridge English Corpus He immediately wakes in horror, realising that he has dreamed the tale of the count's aunt, and encountered, meanwhile, the voice belonging to the portrait. From the Cambridge English Corpus By contrast, there were a few aunts and grandmothers who played, usually temporarily, key caring roles, but to whom the child never became closely attached. From the Cambridge English Corpus Some aunts who were notable characters also played similarly powerful roles in their families. From the Cambridge English Corpus Certainly it was easiest when the grandmother or aunt lived in the same house, but there were also striking instances when they lived close by. From the Cambridge English Corpus His only sister and his aunt are both nuns. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of aunt?

Translations of aunt

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