aunt

 

  • Children in other cultures and families may refer to the cousins of their parents as aunt or uncle due to the age and generation gap.

  • • May Parker, the aunt of Spider-Man.

  • • A great-aunt[2][3] or grandaunt[4] (sometimes written grand-aunt[5]) is the sister of one’s grandparent.

  • • A maternal aunt is the sister of one’s mother.

  • An aunt is a woman who is a sibling of a parent or married to a sibling of a parent.

  • An agony aunt is a colloquial term for a female advice columnist.

  • • Vivian Banks, the aunt of the main character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

 

Works Cited

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• ^ “Google Ngram Viewer of relative versions of name”. Google Ngram. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
• ^ “Grandaunt definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary”. collinsdictionary.com.
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Audiences”. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia). 23 February 2016.
• ^ Browning, Daniel (14 September 2022). “‘I called him Uncle’: Remembering iconic theatre great Uncle Jack Charles”. ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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• ^ Mills, Aunty Kathy. “You belong to my heart”. Spun: True Stories Told in the Territory. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
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