Definitions for uncle
ˈʌŋ kəlun·cle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. unclenoun

   the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt

2. unclenoun

   a source of help and advice and encouragement

   "he played uncle to lonely students"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unclenoun

   A brother or brother-in-law of someone's parent.

2. unclenoun

   A companion to your (usually unmarried) mother.

3. unclenoun

   A source of advice, encouragement, or help.

4. unclenoun

   A pawnbroker.

5. unclenoun

   A close male friend of the parents of a family.

6. unclenoun

   an older male African-American person

7. uncleinterjection

   A cry used to indicate surrender.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unclenoun

   The father’s or mother’s brother.

   Etymology: oncle, Fr.

   Hamlet punishes his uncle rather for his own death, than the murther of his father. Shakespeare Illustrated.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Uncle

   U.N.C.L.E. is an acronym for the fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, a secret international intelligence agency featured in the 1960s American television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. U.N.C.L.E. is an organization consisting of agents of all nationalities. Responsible for "maintaining political and legal order anywhere in the world", it is multinational in makeup and international in scope, protecting and defending nations regardless of size or political persuasion. U.N.C.L.E. operates in Communist and Third World countries the same way that it does in the Western nations. In the episode entitled "The Shark Affair," (episode 4 from season 1, from 1964) enforcement agent of U.N.C.L.E. Napoleon Solo reveals that U.N.C.L.E. is sponsored by the US, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia. Its primary opponent is the independent international criminal organization, THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

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1. uncle

   An uncle is a male individual who is a sibling of one's parent or married to one's parental sibling.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unclenoun

   the brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship

2. Unclenoun

   a pawnbroker

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Uncle

   ung′kl, n. the brother of one's father or mother: an old man generally: a pawnbroker.—n. Un′cleship, the state of being an uncle.—Uncle Sam, the United States or its people.—Talk like a Dutch uncle (see Dutch). [O. Fr. (Fr. oncle)—L. avunculus, extension of avus, a grandfather.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. uncle

   The brother of one’s parent.

   
   

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1. uncle

   The uncle symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the uncle symbol and its characteristic.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Uncle

   How this name came to be applied to a pawnbroker was as follows:--Before the “spout” was introduced all those pledges which consisted of clothing were attached to a very large book, or uncus as it was called, conformably to the Latin description of the article, since the Lombards were the earliest pawnbrokers of history. When this uncus could accommodate nothing more, the rope from which it depended was unslung from the ceiling, and laid across the shoulders of an assistant, who then carried the whole collection to the store-rooms overhead. Hence an article which had been pledged was said to have “Gone to the Uncus,” or, as the modern phrase has it, “Gone to my Uncle’s.”

Matched Categories

1. • Benefactor
   • Kinsman

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'uncle' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2931

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'uncle' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2593

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'uncle' in Nouns Frequency: #1173

How to pronounce uncle?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say uncle in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of uncle in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of uncle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of uncle in a Sentence

1. Al Aour:

   I feel guilty, first of all, the situation was difficult, more than you can imagine. How can your nephew be taken from your hand? How can you face your brother or your uncle? What would you tell them?

2. Samantha Grant:

   My brother is out there acting like he’s the spokesman of the family, he is estranged from my dad because he sold my dad out to photographers from my uncle’s house and tried to get my fragile uncle to talk. He gave up my dad’s whereabouts. In other words, all those rumors out there started by my brother. He claimed he would walk Meg down the aisle. That’s more malarkey than I could even imagine to articulate.

3. Angelique Lopez:

   They were asking how Epstein was when he was in the cell, if he seemed suicidal, they were asking if he had any indication that he would do that. My uncle cooperated.

4. Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Scheffler:

   It’s pretty impressive she’s walking so many holes out here, she’s a trooper, i really do n’t know what to say. She’s had a rough last year with Grandpa passing away, and we have an uncle that’s pretty sick, and I ’m just happy that we’re able to kind of enjoy all this together.

5. Rose Marie:

   I did n’t know [ my father ] was working for Uncle Al Capone [ Capone ] years ago, evidently, he told my father, ‘ The boys want to meet her. The boys are crazy about her. ’ My father told him, ‘ She’s doing five shows a day, so it’s a little difficult. ’ But he said, ‘ We ’ll take care of it. Do n’t worry about it. ’.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=uncle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Uncle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=uncle
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncle
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=uncle
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=uncle