AUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aunt mean? 

• AUNT (noun)
  The noun AUNT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

aunt; auntie; aunty

Hypernyms ("aunt" is a kind of...):

kinswoman (a female relative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aunt"):

grandaunt; great-aunt (an aunt of your father or mother)

maiden aunt (an unmarried aunt)

Antonym:

uncle (the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt)

 Context examples 

I want an appropriate simile.—as far as your friend Emily herself left poor Valancourt when she went with her aunt into Italy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“And SHE. How is SHE?” said my aunt, sharply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To avoid her aunt, and look for him, she went out.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Walter," cried Charles Hayter, "why do you not do as you are bid? Do not you hear your aunt speak? Come to me, Walter, come to cousin Charles."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But his polite regrets didn't impose upon her, and when she galloped away with the Count, she saw Laurie sit down by her aunt with an actual expression of relief.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If he is violent, we shall take you away to your aunt’s at Harrow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have a kind aunt and cousins.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is now.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Your uncle and aunt are quite old acquaintances of mine, and though you cannot remember me, I have held you in my arms when you were an infant.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)