Auntship

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The status of being an aunt. countable, uncountable

    "This was a Mrs Archer, to whom I was taught to pay homage, under the appellation of Aunt Archer; the auntship consisting in that her husband had had for a first wife a sister of my grandmother."

Example

More examples

"This was a Mrs Archer, to whom I was taught to pay homage, under the appellation of Aunt Archer; the auntship consisting in that her husband had had for a first wife a sister of my grandmother."

Etymology

From aunt + -ship.

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