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uncle
  1. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
  2. (euphemistic) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.
  3. (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
  4. (Britain, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
  5. (especially in the Southern US, parts of Britain and Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  6. (Southern US, slang, archaic) An older male African-American person.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Tell her I will come to her tomorrow. I will not fail her. I must speak to my uncle.”
uncleji
  1. (India) uncle (as a respectful term of address)
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uncleship
  1. The office or position of an uncle.
uncledom
  1. the state of being an uncle
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unclehood
  1. the state of being an uncle
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    1. “If he lives in a society which has established unclehood as a centrally significant institution (not ours, to be sure, but most matrilineal societies)...”
uncleships
  1. plural of uncleship
unclejis
uncles
  1. plural of uncle
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    1. “Predictably, Babur's uncles and cousins attacked his territories soon after he had acceded to the throne.”
      “I had a flash of my uncles working the woks in a hellishly hot summer kitchen.”
      “Families used to mean a father and mother, grandparents, and the children, and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
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