Uncle: alternatives and connections

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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

a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.

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

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now com…

The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, de…

The aunt of one's father or mother.

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The mother of one's father or mother.