Uncle

Noun

 * 1) A brother or brother-in-law of someone’s parent.
 * 2) (euphemistically) A companion to your (usually unmarried) mother.
 * 3)  A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
 * 4)  A pawnbroker.
 * 5)  A close male friend of the parents of a family.
 * 6)  an older male African-American person

Adjectives for Uncle
paternal; maternal; adoptive; favorite; scrooge; rich; implacable; reverend; illustrious; virtuous; joyful; ill-tempered; heartless; spendthrift; tender; scholarly; venerable; autocratic.

Thesaurus
aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncs, uterine brother

Etymology
uncle: from uncle from  oncle: from  avunculus:, diminutive of avus: from. Displaced native Middle English eam, eme "maternal uncle" (from Old English eam: "maternal uncle", compare Old English fædera: "paternal uncle") from the same root. More at eme.

Antonyms

 * aunt
 * niece, nephew
 * boy
 * aunty

Hyponyms

 * paternal uncle
 * maternal uncle

Derived terms

 * agony uncle
 * Bob’s your uncle
 * cry uncle
 * Dutch uncle
 * grand-uncle
 * great-uncle, great uncle
 * holler uncle
 * I'll be a monkey's uncle
 * nuncle
 * say uncle
 * Uncle Sam
 * Uncle Scrooge
 * Uncle Tom

Related terms

 * avuncular

Interjection

 * 1) A cry used to indicate surrender.

Noun

 * Albanian: xhaxha,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: дзядзька
 * Bosnian:, ;  , ;  ,
 * Breton: eontr, tonton
 * Bulgarian:  (čičo),  (striko) (regional, non-standard);   (vujčo),  (kaleko),  (svako)
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 伯父 (bófù), 伯伯 (bóbo);  叔父 (shúfù), 叔叔 (shúshu);  姑父 (gūfù), 姑丈 (gūzhàng);  舅父 (jiùfù), 舅舅 (jiùjiu); 姨父 (yífù), 姨丈 (yízhàng)
 * Teochew: a-beh4, beh4;  a-zêg4, zêg4;  a1-dion6, dion6;  a1-gu6, gu6;  a1-dion6, dion6
 * Chinook Jargon:
 * Crimean Tatar: dayı
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: tɔgã (father's elder brother), tɔɖe (father's younger brother), wɔfa
 * Finnish:,  ,  ;
 * French:, tonton
 * German: ,
 * Gooniyandi: ngaboo
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:,  ताया,  ,  अंकल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, om
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 伯父 (oji, hakufu) ; 伯父さん (ojisan); ; 伯父貴 (ojiki)   叔父 (oji, shukufu) ; 叔父さん (ojisan) ; 叔父貴 (ojiki)
 * Kabyle:
 * Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille: smamáʔ
 * Korean: 아저씨


 * Krisa: tani baʼ (father's elder brother), tani pung (father's younger brother), wini (maternal)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: مام (paternal), خاڵ (maternal)
 * Kurmanji:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: (paternal),  (maternal)
 * Latvian: tēvocis, tēva brālis,  mātes brālis
 * Lithuanian: dėdė
 * Malayalam: അമ്മാവന്‍ (ammaavan), മാമന്‍, വല്യച്ചന്‍,  ചെറിയച്ചന്‍
 * Meriam: bab
 * Old English: fædera (paternal),  (maternal)
 * Old French:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: ;
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:,  ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: стриц, чичa , амиџа  (regional, non-standard);  тетак , течa , течо ;  ујак , даиџа  (regional, non-standard);
 * Roman: stric, čiča , amidža  (regional, non-standard);  tetak , teča , tečo ;  ujak , daidža  (regional, non-standard)
 * Seri: aaitz (younger)
 * Slovene: stric, dundo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ; (paternal);  s, ingift ;  (maternal); (mother's brother-in-law) s , ingift
 * Tamil: (mama), பெரியப்ப (Peri'yappa), சிதப்ப (Chi'thappa)
 * Thai: ลุง
 * Torres Strait Creole: ankel
 * Turkish:,  ,  (in-law)
 * Ukrainian: дядько
 * Urdu: چچا
 * Vietnamese:,  , cậu
 * Volapük: hiter, ziom
 * West Frisian: omke


 * Armenian: քեռի (k‘eŕi)
 * Breton: eontr da-heul
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * See also pawnbroker


 * Albanian: fajdexhi
 * Danish:


 * Dutch:
 * Russian:


 * Albanian: xhaxha, bacë
 * Bosnian: čiko
 * Catalan: tio
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: чико, чика
 * Roman: čiko, čika


 * Belarusian: дзядзька
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 叔叔
 * Japanese: おじさん


 * Korean: 아저씨
 * Russian: дядя
 * Ukrainian: дядько

Noun

 * 1) * circa 1250, Marie de France, Chevrefeuille
 * Tristram en Wales se rala, tant que sis uncles le manda
 * Tristan returned to Wales, while he waited for his uncle to call on him
 * Tristram en Wales se rala, tant que sis uncles le manda
 * Tristan returned to Wales, while he waited for his uncle to call on him