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uncle 音标拼音: ['ʌŋkəl] n. C伯父,叔父,舅父,姑父,姨父 C伯父,叔父,舅父,姑父,姨父 uncle n 1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt [ ant: { aunt}, { auntie}, { aunty}] 2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; " he played uncle to lonely students" Uncle \ Un" cle\, n. [ OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr. L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather; akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw? grandmother, Icel. [= a] i great grandfather.] 1. The brother of one' s father or mother; also applied to an aunt' s husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A pawnbroker. [ Slang] -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An eldery man; -- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, esp. ( Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, " Uncle Remus." [ Colloq.] Plain old uncle as he [ Socrates] was, with his great ears, -- an immense talker. -- Emerson. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] { My uncle}, a pawnbroker. [ Slang] { Uncle Sam}, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See { Uncle Sam}, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. [ 1913 Webster] 43 Moby Thesaurus words for " uncle": aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great- aunt, great- uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister- german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncs, uterine brother |
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