What is another word for great-aunt?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈe͡ɪtˈant] (IPA)

Great-aunt is a term used to address one's grandmother's sister or grandfather's sister. However, there are various synonyms that can be used instead of great-aunt, including grandaunt, grand-aunt, or even just aunt. Other alternatives include grandauntie, grandaunty, and even great-aunty. Some families also use regional terms like "auntie" or "auntie-great" to refer to their great-aunts. Additionally, in some cultures, great-aunts are referred to as "auntie" or "aunt" followed by a first name or a nickname. Overall, there are a variety of synonyms to use instead of great-aunt depending on personal preference or cultural traditions.

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Famous quotes with Great-aunt

  • They would have preferred for me, instead of Bloch, companions who would have given me no more than it is proper to give according to the laws of middle-class morality, who would not unexpectedly send me a basket of fruit because they happened, that morning, to have thought of me with affection, but who, being incapable of inclining in my favour, by a simple impulse of imagination and sensibility, the exact balance of the duties and claims of friendship, would be equally incapable of loading the scales to my detriment. Even our faults will not easily divert from the path of their duty towards us those conventional natures of which the model was my great-aunt who, estranged for years from a niece to whom she never spoke, yet made no change in the will in which she left that niece the whole of her fortune, because she was her next-of-kin and it was the 'proper thing to do.'
    Marcel Proust

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