(n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
(n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
(n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.
Example Sentences:
(1) The muscle fibers were hypotrophic and predominantly of type I. Biopsy specimens of the muscles of the mother and maternal aunt had increased numbers of centrally located nuclei.
(2) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(3) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(5) His report, which has been obtained by The Observer, shows that Mubanga had asked for his sister, aunt and brother to testify in his defence.
(6) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
(7) In the patient muscular biochemistry revealed a major reduction in NADH oxydase activity and in the aunt a diminished level of carnitin compatible with carnitin deficiency.
(8) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(9) My father had died six months previously and on the day of my birth my great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, arrived unexpectedly at my mother's house.
(10) Their aunt Teema Kurdi, a hairdresser in Vancouver, heard the news from her brother Mohammad’s wife, Ghuson.
(11) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
(12) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(13) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
(14) Similar phenotypes were present in a maternal aunt and uncle.
(15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
(16) An uncle of the boy died at the age of 42, an aunt at the age of 16 years, both of atrophic kidneys.
(17) This paper evaluates the perceived genetic risk, the perceived burden, the impact on reproductive decision making, and the attitudes of aunts and uncles of a child with cystic fibrosis toward carrier identification, prenatal diagnosis, and pregnancy termination.
(18) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
(19) The long discussion between Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt is remarkably open: "But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him, as to consent to live with him on any other terms than marriage?"
(20) When I was younger I used to call them aunt and uncle, but they were actually sister and brothers."
Grandmother
Definition:
(n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
(3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
(4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
(5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
(6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
(7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
(8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
(9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
(10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
(11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
(12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
(13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
(15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
(16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
(17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
(18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
(19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
(20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.