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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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How to use uncle in a sentence?

  1. Cora Breuner:

    I always say in my clinic, everybody has to shut off their screen between 9 and 10, and all of them need to be charged away from the bed on a phone charge strip. Everybody : Mom, Dad, uncle, partners, siblings.

  2. Jeb Bush & Associates:

    This release will show voters how I earned a living over the past three decades and how much of that living I had to give back to Uncle Sam. (Spoiler alert: a lot).

  3. Muhammad Noman:

    They covered our eyes and half an hour after picking us up, they let me go, we searched for my uncle everywhere. Three days later, police called us and said his body had been found.

  4. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

    I always stayed in touch with Mr. Frank until his death. We were always corresponding. I used to call him Oom Otto — Uncle Otto. He visited us also several times in Israel with his second wife.

  5. Steve Wilson:

    It started with Lisa Wilsons uncle. Lisa Wilsons uncle was feeling so bad. Lisa Wilsons uncle wasn't eating, and Lisa Wilsons uncle was coughing a lot.


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