aunt

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /eɪnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
    — As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
  2. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
  3. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. endearing
  4. Any elderly woman. obsolete
  5. A procuress or bawd. obsolete
    — I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.

词形变化

aunts plural

词汇关系

近义词
auntie aunty auntyji naunt
反义词
uncle niece nephew
上位词
auncle pibling
下位词
aunt-in-law co-aunt cousin-aunt double aunt grandaunt great-grandaunt great-aunt half aunt maternal half aunt paternal half aunt second aunt stepaunt
衍生词
agony aunt agony auntie agony aunty auntcest auntdom Aunt Edna Aunt Emma Aunt Flo aunt fucker aunthood aunticide 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 Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt 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 my aunt Fanny my giddy aunt my sainted aunt naunt paternal aunt paternal half aunt please excuse my dear Aunt Sally second aunt stepaunt step-aunt summon auntie uncle or aunt wine aunt wouldn't call the Queen my aunt
相关词
tante materteral

词源

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”)). The digraph ⟨au⟩ representing /æ ~ ɑː/ instead of the expected /ɔː/ is irregular, and has not been conclusively explained (compare launch, which contains /ɑː/ in some UK dialects).
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