Auntship
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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