MAIDEN AUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maiden aunt mean? 

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

1. an unmarried aunt

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAIDEN AUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unmarried aunt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

aunt; auntie; aunty (the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle)

 Context examples 

This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.

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

But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)