aunt
English
Etymology
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
- enPR: änt, IPA(key): /ɑːnt/[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ɑːnt]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [äːnt], [ɐːnt]
- (Atlantic Canada, Tidewater, General South African) IPA(key): [ɒːnt]
- (New England) IPA(key): [ɑːnt], [aːnt]
- (AAVE) IPA(key): [äːnt], [ɑːnt]
- Rhymes: -ɑːnt
- Homophone: aren't (in some non-rhotic accents)
Audio (US) (file)
- enPR: ănt, IPA(key): /ænt/[1]
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): [ænt], [ɛənt], [eənt]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [ant], [ænt]
- Rhymes: -ænt
- Homophone: ant
Audio (US) (file)
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ant/, [änt]
- (New England) enPR: ônt, IPA(key): /ɔnt/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔːnt
- (AAVE) enPR: ŭnt, IPA(key): /ʌnt/
- Rhymes: -ʌnt
- (Southern American English) enPR: ānt, IPA(key): /eɪnt/ [1]
- Rhymes: -eɪnt
- Homophone: ain't
Noun
aunt (plural aunts)
- The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- The female cousin or cousin-in-law 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
Hyponyms
- 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
- 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
Translations
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
References
- The Dialect Survey of US pronunciations
Middle English
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