aunts
- 1Plural of aunt.
Three of his aunts gathered in the kitchen to swap family stories.
The wedding photos showed several aunts she had never met before.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular with it. Besides a parent's sisters and sisters-in-law, it can include a parent's female cousins and, affectionately, the older family friends a child calls aunt by courtesy rather than blood. Two older uses, any elderly woman and a procuress or bawd, are now obsolete. A reader who meets them in old writing should not read them as family.
aunts is a form of aunt
aunt, noun: The sister or sister-in-law of one of your parents, or, more loosely, a parent's female cousin or the wife of a parent's cousin. Full entry
- Forms
- auntaunts plural
- Spelling
- aunt → aunts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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