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double aunts

double aunts is the plural of double aunt.

Meaning of double aunt

Noun

double aunt (plural double aunts)

  1. A woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other.
    • The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235
  2. (rare) A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins.
    • I've just paid one to my double aunt.' Phelan ventured to ask what relationship that might be. ' She's my father's aunt first, and then she's mine next, and so she is really two aunts,' he explained. '1894, Neil Christison, Wedded to a Genius: A Novel - Volume 1, page 201

Questions about double aunts

What is double aunts the plural of?
Double aunts is the plural of double aunt.

Words near double aunts in the dictionary

  1. double appointment
  2. double appointments
  3. double articulation
  4. double As
  5. double aunt
  6. double aunts
  7. double back
  8. double bar
  9. double bar line
  10. double bar lines
  11. double barrel vault

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