Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aunt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Note: 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. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aunt
n : the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
[syn: {auntie}, {aunty}] [ant: {uncle}]
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