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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for aunt:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

aunt
    n 1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
         [syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

AUNT, domestic relations. The sister of one's father or mother; she is a
relation in the third degree. Vide 2 Com. Dig. 474 Dane's Ab. c. 126, a. 3.
Sec. 4.

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