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Definition of Aunt

1. Noun. The sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle.

Definition of Aunt

1. n. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

Definition of Aunt

1. Noun. a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent ¹

2. Noun. (''also'' great-aunt ''or'' grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law. ¹

3. Noun. (''usually'' auntie) a grandmother. ¹

4. Noun. an affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aunt

1. the sister of one's father or mother [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aunt

1. 1. The sister of one's father or mother; correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife. Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related. 2. An old woman; and old gossip. 3. A bawd, or a prostitute. 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. Origin: OF. Ante, F. Tante, L. Amita father's sister. Cf. Amma. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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