Uncle

4 definitions found

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

  Uncle \Un"cle\, n. [OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr.
     L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather;
     akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw? grandmother, Icel.
     [=a]i great grandfather.]
     1. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an
        aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of


        nephew and niece in relationship.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A pawnbroker. [Slang] --Thackeray.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. An eldery man; -- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar
        appellation, esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro;
        as, "Uncle Remus." [Colloq.]
  
              Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great
              ears, -- an immense talker.           --Emerson.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     {My uncle}, a pawnbroker. [Slang]
  
     {Uncle Sam}, a humorous appellation given to the United
        States Government. See {Uncle Sam}, in Dictionary of Noted
        Names in Fiction.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uncle
       n 1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your
            aunt [ant: {aunt}]
       2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played
          uncle to lonely students"

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

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncle":
     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, uncs,
     uterine brother
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  UNCLE
       Unix Net for Computer security in Law Enforcement (org., USA, Unix),
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