aunt
/ɑːnt/ noun A1- The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
- The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
- A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
Plural aunts
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When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife.
When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
Aunt Em was washing the dishes.
“Send me back to Kansas, where my Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are,” she answered earnestly.
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