aunt

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From Middle English < Old French ante < Latin amita (father's sister).

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Singular
aunt

Plural
aunts

aunt (plural aunts)

  1. a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent
  2. (also great-aunt or grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.
  3. (usually auntie) a grandmother.
  4. an affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

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Several languages distinguish between blood aunts (one’s parent’s sister) and in-law aunts (one’s parent’s sister-in-law), some distinguish between paternal and maternal aunts, and some distinguish between one’s parent’s older siblings and younger siblings.

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