Uncle
['ʌŋk(ə)l] or ['ʌŋkl]
Definition
(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'.
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(n.) 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.
(n.) A pawnbroker.
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n. the brother of one's father or mother: an old man generally: a pawnbroker.—n. Un′cleship the state of being an uncle.—Uncle Sam the United States or its people.—Talk like a Dutch uncle (see Dutch).
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If you see your uncle in a dream, you will have news of a sad character soon. To dream you see your uncle prostrated in mind, and repeatedly have this dream, you will have trouble with your relations which will result in estrangement, at least for a time. To see your uncle dead, denotes that you have formidable enemies. To have a misunderstanding with your uncle, denotes that your family relations will be unpleasant, and illness will be continually present.
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Examples
- I could tell you a story about that same uncle, gentlemen, that would rather surprise you. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Pray Heaven that I am going away from, have compassion on my uncle! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I love to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And now uncle is abroad, you and Mr. Garth can have it all your own way; and I am sure James does everything you tell him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His father was Sillerton Jackson's uncle, his mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She saw nothing more of her uncle, nor of her aunt Norris, till they met at dinner. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have heard from my uncle how well you speak in public, so that every one is sorry when you leave off, and how clearly you can explain things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Put them next to your great-uncle the judge. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I know it all; that the young man's marrying her was a patched-up business, at the expence of your father and uncles. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Just as I had got about a mile from Oxford, one of Worcester's uncles passed my chaise: if I recollect right it was Lord Edward. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If they had uncles enough to fill _all_ Cheapside, cried Bingley, it would not make them one jot less agreeable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Her uncles ought to deal with this, he said. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Who are your uncles and aunts? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Which of your uncles do you like best? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hermann, that Glaucon and Adeimantus are not the brothers but the uncles of Plato (cp. Plato. The Republic.
- Well, resumed Mr. Rochester, if you disown parents, you must have some sort of kinsfolk: uncles and aunts? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They little think how much it comes to, or what their parents, or their uncles and aunts, pay for them in the course of the year. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Having ascertained this, I was sure he must remember my two uncles, Charles and Wilmot, who, fifteen, years agowere frequent visitors here. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The family was evidently one of considerable culture and deep religious feeling, for two of Mrs. Edison's uncles and two brothers were also in the same Baptist ministry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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