uncle
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
Other meanings
The male cousin of one’s parent.
Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
Related words
- drunkle
- greatuncle
- gruncle
- grunkle
- stepuncle
- agony uncle
- everybody and his uncle
- everybody and their uncle
- everyone and his uncle
- everyone and their uncle
- auncle
- Bob's your uncle
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "avunculus" (maternal uncle).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “uncle” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.