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Synonyms for uncle
ˈʌŋ kəlun·cle

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Wiktionary2.7 / 3 votes

  1. unclenoun

    an older male African-American person

    Antonyms:
    boy

  2. unclenoun

    Antonyms:
    niece, aunt, nephew

  3. unclenoun

    Antonyms:
    aunty

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. unclenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    aunt, auntie, aunty

  2. unclenoun

    a source of help and advice and encouragement

    "he played uncle to lonely students"

    Antonyms:
    auntie, aunty, aunt

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  1. feter

    yiddish

    Submitted by anonymous on May 20, 2020  

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  1. uncleadjective

    Associated words:
    avuncular

PPDB, the paraphrase database4.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "uncle":

    oncle, -uncle, tonton, zio, uncles

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  1. Tejubi Uru eu Wau Wau:

    We were sad ; we try to take care of everything, only a week had gone by after my uncle passed, my grandfather went into the forest to sing for his death and he found new invaders, two White people hunting. They don't respect us.

  2. Harander Singh family:

    The attackers arrived on the stairs and started killing the women. My nephew shouted and said to me 'Uncle, please go downstairs', and when I tried to go downstairs, they shot my nephew in the head.

  3. G. K. Chesterton:

    Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

  4. Matthew McConaughey:

    You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line, and that’s part of our bromance, right? My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew etc etc. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him.

  5. Joe Brusuelas:

    That's bad news for the economy, uncle Sam want a confident consumer to expense her income. We're just not seeing that right now.


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