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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New England, AAVE, some other US areas, Atlantic Canada) enPR: änt, IPA(key): /ɑ(ː)nt/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːnt
- Homophone: aren't (in some non-rhotic accents)
- (Northern England, Canada, General American) enPR: ănt, IPA(key): /ænt/ (in the US, this is the most common pronunciation in all regions except New England and Virginia)[1]
- (Southern Hiberno-English) IPA(key): /æːnt/ (not homophonous with "ant")
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ant/
- (Canada, Maritimes) IPA(key): /ɒnt/
- Rhymes: -ɒnt
- (New England) enPR: ônt, IPA(key): /ɔnt/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔːnt
- (Southern American English, occasionally) IPA(key): /eɪnt/[1]
Noun[edit]
aunt (plural aunts)
- The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- (endearing) The female cousin of one’s parent.
- (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
- (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
- (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
Synonyms[edit]
- auntie, aunty (diminutive)
- auntyji (India, as a respectful term of address)
- naunt (nonstandard, proscribed, dated)
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- (sibling of someone's parent) auncle, pibling (nonstandard)
Hyponyms[edit]
- aunt-in-law
- co-aunt
- cousin-aunt
- double aunt
- grandaunt, great-grandaunt, great-aunt
- half aunt, maternal half aunt, paternal half aunt
- second aunt
- (sister of someone's father) paternal aunt
- (sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt
- stepaunt
Derived terms[edit]
- agony aunt, agony auntie, agony aunty
- auntcest
- auntdom
- Aunt Emma
- Aunt Flo
- aunt fucker
- aunthood
- aunticide
- Auntie
- auntie, aunty
- Auntie Beeb
- aunting
- aunt-in-law
- auntish
- Aunt Jane
- Aunt Jemima
- auntless
- auntlike
- auntly
- Aunt Minnie
- aunt nell
- auntness
- Aunt Sally
- auntship
- Aunt Thomasina
- auntyish
- auntyji
- co-aunt
- cousin-aunt
- double aunt
- grandaunt
- great-aunt
- great-grandaunt
- half aunt
- if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle, if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt
- kopi auntie, kopi aunty
- maiden-auntish, maiden-auntishness
- maternal aunt
- maternal half aunt
- mine aunt
- my aunt Fanny
- my giddy aunt
- my sainted aunt
- naunt
- paternal aunt
- paternal half aunt
- please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
- second aunt
- stepaunt
- summon auntie
- uncle or aunt
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
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.
a parent's sister or sister-in-law
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affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Dialect Survey of US pronunciations
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
aunt
- Alternative form of aunte
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