Aunt

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Aunt, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma.].

•  The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.  [1913 Webster]

  " Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related."  [1913 Webster]
•  An old woman; and old gossip.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A bawd, or a prostitute.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Aunt, n.
1 the sister of one's father or mother.
2 an uncle's wife.
3 colloq. an unrelated woman friend of a child or children.

Idiom

Aunt Sally
1 a game in which players throw sticks or balls at a wooden dummy.
2 the object of an unreasonable attack. my (or my sainted etc.) aunt sl. an exclamation of surprise, disbelief, etc.

Etymology

ME f. AF aunte, OF ante, f. L amita

THESAURUS

Aunt

auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

ROGET THESAURUS

Aunt

Consanguinity

N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.