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MASCULINE uncle FEMININE aunt

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Meaning uncle meaning

What does uncle mean?

Definitions in simple English

uncle Noun

— Your uncle is the brother of your mother or father. My father has a brother, Joe. Joe is my uncle. My mother's brother, Jim, is another uncle.

uncle

— noun the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt — noun a source of help and advice and encouragement he played uncle to lonely students

Synonyms uncle synonyms

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uncle English » English

mother’s brother father aunt father’s younger brother father’s brother maternal uncle paternal uncle father-in-law sir maternal father’s elder brother cousin old man nephew mother father’s sister’s husband Sir unky unc stepfather pops pawnbroker paternal parent’s younger brother parent owner one’s father’s sister-in-law nunky nuncle niece mother's brother male cousin great-uncle eldest brother elder earl do-gooder count chief official brother-in-law brother benefactress benefactor Mr. Mr

Uncle English » English

Uncle Sam

Topics uncle topics

What do people use uncle to talk about?

Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Uncle, aunt

What words refer to your father's brother?

uncle
What words refer to your mother's brother?

uncle
What words refer to a brother or sister of one of your grandparents?

granduncle grandaunt great-uncle great-aunt

Examples uncle examples

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Simple sentences

My uncle gave me a book.

My uncle runs a hotel.

He will visit his uncle.

Tom and his uncle walked together in silence.

I thought that you were Tom's uncle.

I stayed at my uncle's while I was in Boston.

Is your uncle still abroad?

Where does your uncle live?

My uncle's brother's son got involved in a shady business and disgraced the family.

The man reading a paper over there is my uncle.

Uncle Bob fixed my clock. It keeps good time now.

Bob dropped in at his uncle's house.

Uncle Bob invited us to have dinner.

Helen visits her uncle every Sunday.

Tom is living with his uncle now.

Uncle Tom is my mother's brother.

Uncle Ted took us to the zoo in order to show us the pandas.

The prominent psychologist resembles my uncle in appearance.

The baby was named Ichiro after his uncle.

Tom's uncle keeps a lot of sheep.

I've just been to my uncle's house.

He is in custody of his uncle.

Movie subtitles

Well, it was for her Uncle Fulbert.

Untidy. The worst uncle ever.

Uncle Stavros!

Uncle, reminding you I need tomorrow night off. My daughter's talent show.

So will your favorite and only uncle. Oh, and that lady lawyer friend of yours.

He's our uncle, but our dad works for the railroad, too.

You were fine ten minutes ago. Maybe I should tell my uncle that you wouldn't let me go.

But I will be speaking with your uncle after school.

Their father's out of town, and their uncle doesn't want to be involved.

You told our uncle on us.

Well, Uncle Ray says Wyatts don't apologize.

Count de Guiche, riding high on a wave of power rolled up by his uncle, Cardinal Richelieu.

How about Uncle Dick?

Polly, it's a well-known fact. that your uncle was drunk at the time.

Your uncle Muhammad said he wanted her.

Like she said, your uncle wants me for his harem.

Your uncle's rich.

Uncle, reminding you I need tomorrow night off.

So will your favorite and only uncle.

And your uncle.

And your uncle. And my uncle.

Say, Uncle, when did Bascom women ever turn back?

No, uncle, it wasn't me.

Good, Uncle Opanas, we'll bury our Vasili ourselves.

And you, Uncle Opanas, mustn't grieve.

This is to inform you that you are the sole heir to your Uncle's fortune.

This is my father's and uncle's blood.

Peter hale is my Uncle.

As soon as his brother was buried, Uncle Jeff. proceeded to squander the inheritance.

Uncle, there's a For Sale sign on the barge.

Uncle Jeff returned from his wandering.

So, you don't say hello to your uncle?

But tomorrow a very rich uncle is coming to me for a cup of coffee.

Although you haven't been kind to my uncle, I will be pleased to help you one more time.

My uncle is a reporter, I'm helping him.

Are you okay too, Uncle?

I'm Mr. Vesinet, the bride's uncle.

News and current affairs

As long as Uncle Sam continues to police the world, his children won't grow up.

Under all the confident-sounding dismissals of US power, there is still some yearning to return to a more reassuring time, when the democratic world could lay its collective head on Uncle Sam's broad shoulders.

Also killed in the attack was Jaber's nephew, a policeman who had come to offer protection to his uncle.

Four years ago, I gave a series of lectures at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and squeezed in a visit with my uncle, a Vietcong who stayed behind after the Communist victory.

But as my uncle suggests, perhaps it was the South that ultimately liberated the North.

In his debates with Ronald Reagan in 1980, Jimmy Carter came across as smug and humorless, and Reagan as a friendly old uncle.

The religious demon is a far less appealing devil than Uncle Sam.

I still have an uncle, aunt, and cousins in Brussels.

Gamal al-Din's uncle, Abd al-Ahad Gamal al-Din, was the ruling National Democratic Party's parliamentary majority leader during the 2000's.

Thai cinema's gifted young director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, won the Palme d'Or.

The biggest loser from the global financial crisis, in China's view, is Uncle Sam.

Even longtime friends have taken to poking Uncle Sam in the eye.

But, taking the long view, the future surely does not lie with organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood. The religious demon is a far less appealing devil than Uncle Sam.

The relationship between al-Ahmar and Saleh extends to their youth, with Saleh's mother having had a second marriage to al-Ahmar's uncle.

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