Word Finder - aunt

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The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

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The female cousin of one’s parent.

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A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

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Any elderly woman.

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A procuress or bawd.

We kept in touch with Aunt Clara.

When her aunt had died, Katie had moved in with Carmen.

My aunt never said it out loud or even admitted it, but she blamed her son.

Aunt Betsy will see to that!

My aunt made me a big doll out of towels.

Martha's exposure to the library was more educational than helping Aunt Janet clean toilet bowls.

Your aunt and uncle seem pretty fond of you.

With her traveled Mademoiselle Bourienne, little Nicholas and his tutor, her old nurse, three maids, Tikhon, and a young footman and courier her aunt had sent to accompany her.

Grandpa thinks video games are toys made for kids, while Aunt Edna think they're a waste of time.

Aunt Helen died a few years later.

I went to Knoxville with father and aunt.

She is here in Voronezh with her aunt.

This brought him into conflict with the aristocratic party, who prevented him from obtaining the aedileship. When about forty years of age he married a lady of patrician rank, Julia, the aunt of Julius Caesar.

In December 1741 he was adopted by his aunt, Elizabeth Petrovna, as soon as she was safely established on the Russian throne, and on the 18th of November 1742 was received into the Orthodox Church, exchanging his original name of Karl Peter Ulrich for that of Peter.Fedorovich.

To secure peace with the emperor he sanctioned the marriage of his aunt Constance, daughter of Roger II., with Frederick's son Henry, afterwards the emperor Henry VI., causing a general oath to be taken to her as his successor in case of his death without heirs.

On the 21st of August 1745, by the command of his aunt, he married the princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of AnhaltZerbst, who exchanged her name for that of Catherine Aleksyeevna.

Seven years later his father died, and his mother placed him with his aunt, the wife of the priest of another little island-parish.

The determining factor is no doubt to be sought in his relationship with C. Marius, the husband of his aunt Julia.

The elder of these, succeeding as 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859), became in 1833 2nd Earl de Grey, in right of his maternal aunt, and assumed the surname of de Grey; he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1841-44).

He used his family relations with the English court, derived through the marriage of Count Emmanuel Mensdorff-Pouilly (1777-1862) with Queen Victoria's aunt, Princess Sophia of Saxe-Coburg, his friendship with Edward VII.

In it he corrects his aunt, who had put up the wooden pillars of his Waterloo bridge "upside down."

Ladislaus was not really a pagan, or he would not have devoted his share of the spoil of Durnkriit to the building of the Franciscan church at Pressburg, nor would he have venerated as he did his aunt St Margaret.

Educated as a Catholic by his mother, he was on the death of Stephen Bathory elected king of Poland (August 19, 1587) chiefly through the efforts of the Polish chancellor, Jan Zamoyski, and of his own aunt, Anne, queen-dowager of Poland, who lent the chancellor 10o,000 gulden to raise troops in defence of her nephew's cause.

In 1537 Lord Thomas Fitzgerald and his five uncles were executed for rebellion in Munster, and the English government made every effort to lay hands also on Gerald, the youthful heir to the earldom of Kildare, a boy of twelve years of age who was in the secret custody of his aunt Lady Eleanor McCarthy.

Somewhere about the end of 1526 those who were in the kings intimate confidence began to be aware that he was meditating a divorcea thing not lightly to be taken in hand, for the queen was the aunt of the emperor Charles V., who would be vastly offended at such a proposal.

My aunt has a penchant for things that are a bit wacky.

An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home.

What's more, PKF's own VAT agony aunt is on hand to answer questions and address concerns.

Love sick readers can visit Dr. Kim, Enter's sex agony aunt.

I did a few months as a TV agony aunt on an afternoon TV show.

Eunice Smith, 73, has been appointed official Internet agony aunt for parents by the Department for Education and Employment.

The teacher asked the pupils to solve a money problem involving an imaginary rich aunt.

Beloved wife of the late Bill Currie, dearly loved aunt to the family.

The only Anderson I experienced during an air raid was in Croydon while visiting an aunt.

So once again Jane and Joan had to nurse their aged aunt.

Sadly, said maiden aunt may not share this opinion.

Sometimes the paternal aunt is given the honor of choosing a name.

Scenario 2 Several weeks later, the same babyâs maternal aunt comes to your surgery.

They can also email agony aunt, Sam, for direct advice.

Beloved wife of the late Angus Young, a much loved and sadly missed sister, aunt and great aunt of the family.

Aunt Sally ' propositions were discussed in the morning session.

Aunt Dahlia wants Bertie to go to Totleigh Towers to steal the cow creamer.

Aunt Queenie, a lesser witch, somewhat demonstrative and ill-advised, gave well-taken opportunities to Betty Elliott.

Marriages, initiated by elders, were arranged with the help of an ' aunt ' or the ' priest ' .

A little orphan girl lives with her cruel aunt in a rambling, tumbledown house.

Aunt Bessie's Cottage is a classic rural Cornish cottage built over 200 years ago and provides the perfect holiday hideaway.

He then receives word from his small hometown in Georgia that his last living relative, Aunt Sally, has passed away.

Tom is living in the house of his Aunt Polly with the irritating Sid, who turns him in for playing hooky from school.

Will the DJ have an Irish jig for aunt Pat or a Doris Day track for the older guests?

She found her aunt in bed, wearing a nightdress with a bed jacket round her shoulders.