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# aunt

«aunt» in Mova's school dictionary: **the sister of your mother or father** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (aunt, aunts; auntie, aunty)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An aunt is the sister of your mother or father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#m1)

2) An aunt is also the wife of your uncle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#m2)

3) «Auntie» is a friendly word for an aunt or for an older woman friend of the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a person who gives or gets things; ages compared; in families: your aunt's children are your cousins; in stories: a kind or strict aunt looks after a child; phrases: «Aunt Mary», «great-aunt» (your parent's aunt)

### examples

- His aunt gave him $10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x1)
- My aunt is 35 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x2)
- She has 2 aunts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x3)
- Aunt Mary baked 24 cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x4)
- My aunt is my mum's younger sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x5)
- We stayed with Auntie Jo for the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x6)
- My aunt's children are my cousins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x7)
- His great-aunt is 90 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x8)
- Aunt Em was washing the dishes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/#x9)

### note

A person; giving from an aunt adds to the child's amount. «Aunt» takes a capital letter before a name: Aunt Mary. Pronounced «ant» (US) or «arnt» (UK); in the US it sounds like the insect «ant».

### In the corpora

- [Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/)
- [Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when lions or hyenas come; babies suck their trunks for comfort.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/16/)
- ["Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/21/)
- [She shuts it and tells her aunt, and that small act could save a life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/233-sea-and-pools/7/)
- [His aunt rang to ask if anyone had seen it, and Mum was embarrassed in front of her sister.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aunt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aunt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.