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| aunt |
the wife of one's uncle. [1/2 definitions] |
| avuncular |
of, concerning, or like an uncle; kind; benevolent. |
| cousin |
the child of an aunt or uncle. [1/3 definitions] |
| first cousin |
the offspring of one's uncle or aunt. |
| granduncle |
see "great-uncle." |
| Hamlet |
in one of Shakespeare's tragedies, the title character, a prince who avenges his father's death by slaying the murderer, his own uncle. |
| Simon Legree |
in the mid-nineteenth-century novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a cruel overseer and slave dealer. [1/2 definitions] |
| Uncle Tom |
the title character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a mid-nineteenth century novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom is a black slave whose religious beliefs move him to forgive his oppressors. [1/2 definitions] |
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