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Aunty

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

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Narrower term 1

Grandaunt 76% connected

The aunt of one's father or mother.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Kinswoman 76% connected

A female relative.

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Aunt 92% connected

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Auntie 92% connected

Alt. of Aunty

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Age verb · 78% connection

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

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Aged adjective · 78% connection

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oa…

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Barb noun · 78% connection

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

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Benne noun · 78% connection

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is ex…

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Bluebonnet noun · 78% connection

low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…

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Catfish noun · 78% connection

A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias n…

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Circuit noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Constitutional Convention noun · 78% connection

the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

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Cousin noun · 78% connection

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

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Cousin-german noun · 78% connection

the child of your aunt or uncle

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Dixie noun · 78% connection

A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.

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Dover's Powder unknown · 78% connection

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…

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Familiar adjective · 78% connection

within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar ever…

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Familiarization noun · 78% connection

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

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Fed noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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