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  • noun Plural form of aunt.

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Examples

  • Center has seen this dreadful progression up close: One of her aunts is bedridden and doesn't recognize her.

    Watching a loved one sink into Alzheimer's, dementia can be harrowing 2007

  • She had grown to be a handy little creature, and tasks she was capable of doing at all she did like a flash, so that when she called her aunts at five o'clock to pass judgment, she had accomplished wonders.

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

  • She had grown to be a handy little creature, and tasks she was capable of doing at all she did like a flash, so that when she called her aunts at five o'clock to pass judgment, she had accomplished wonders.

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • As a kid with an Irish mother and a Slavic father, I was familiar with pasta con le sarde, gnocchi, tripe and the ubiquitous lasagna thanks to neighbors, friends of my parents we called aunts and uncles, and schoolmates who traced their lineages to Italy.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Besides, the aunts were an unstoppable force, each had an energy that belied her great age even the youngest, Aunt Hettie, wasnt a day under eighty.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Besides, the aunts were an unstoppable force, each had an energy that belied her great age even the youngest, Aunt Hettie, wasnt a day under eighty.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Besides, the aunts were an unstoppable force, each had an energy that belied her great age even the youngest, Aunt Hettie, wasnt a day under eighty.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Besides, the aunts were an unstoppable force, each had an energy that belied her great age even the youngest, Aunt Hettie, wasnt a day under eighty.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Besides, the aunts were an unstoppable force, each had an energy that belied her great age even the youngest, Aunt Hettie, wasnt a day under eighty.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • They're literally on the phone -- my two middle ones -- calling their aunts and uncles and bouncing names off them.

    CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2008 2008

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