Aunt

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aunt \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
     Cf. {Amma}.]
     1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
        nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
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     Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
           endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
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     2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {Aunt Sally}, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a
        pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying
        to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aunt
       n : the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
           [syn: {auntie}, {aunty}] [ant: {uncle}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "aunt":
     auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy,
     country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed,
     daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater,
     grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle,
     half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks,
     nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern,
     son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AUNT, domestic relations. The sister of one's father or mother; she is a
  relation in the third degree. Vide 2 Com. Dig. 474 Dane's Ab. c. 126, a. 3.
  Sec. 4.