dictionary definitions for "aunt"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  aunt
      n : the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
          [syn: auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aunt \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
     Cf. Amma.]
     1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
        nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
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     Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
           endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
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     2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     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.
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