"co-aunt" meaning in English

See co-aunt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: co-aunts [plural]
Etymology: * co- + aunt Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|co|aunt}} co- + aunt Head templates: {{en-noun}} co-aunt (plural co-aunts)
  1. of a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings. Categories (topical): Female family members
    Sense id: en-co-aunt-en-noun-gYW9xyJu Disambiguation of Female family members: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51
  2. a woman's sister, as aunt in common to the children of a third sibling Categories (topical): Female family members Synonyms (sibling's spouse's sister): co-sister-in-law (english: relative to the married siblings rather than to the children; however, this term generally refers to a different relationship, that of two women who marry brothers)
    Sense id: en-co-aunt-en-noun-FNrG1RUF Disambiguation of Female family members: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of "sibling's spouse's sister": 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: co-grandmother Coordinate_terms: co-uncle

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for co-aunt meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "co-uncle"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "co",
        "3": "aunt"
      },
      "expansion": "co- + aunt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* co- + aunt",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-aunts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "co-aunt (plural co-aunts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "co-grandmother"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female family members",
          "orig": "en:Female family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Female people",
            "Family",
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "of a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings."
      ],
      "id": "en-co-aunt-en-noun-gYW9xyJu",
      "links": [
        [
          "co-sister-in-law",
          "co-sister-in-law"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female family members",
          "orig": "en:Female family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Female people",
            "Family",
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 4, “Camp Jean”, in The Favorite Aunt: Not that it’s a competition",
          "text": "A few years ago, my sister and co-aunt Judy started flying [our niece and nephew] Violet and Dash down to California to spend a week with her",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a woman's sister, as aunt in common to the children of a third sibling"
      ],
      "id": "en-co-aunt-en-noun-FNrG1RUF",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "38 62",
          "english": "relative to the married siblings rather than to the children; however, this term generally refers to a different relationship, that of two women who marry brothers",
          "sense": "sibling's spouse's sister",
          "word": "co-sister-in-law"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "co-aunt"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Female family members"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "co-uncle"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "co",
        "3": "aunt"
      },
      "expansion": "co- + aunt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* co- + aunt",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-aunts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "co-aunt (plural co-aunts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "co-grandmother"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "of a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "co-sister-in-law",
          "co-sister-in-law"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 4, “Camp Jean”, in The Favorite Aunt: Not that it’s a competition",
          "text": "A few years ago, my sister and co-aunt Judy started flying [our niece and nephew] Violet and Dash down to California to spend a week with her",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a woman's sister, as aunt in common to the children of a third sibling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "relative to the married siblings rather than to the children; however, this term generally refers to a different relationship, that of two women who marry brothers",
      "sense": "sibling's spouse's sister",
      "word": "co-sister-in-law"
    }
  ],
  "word": "co-aunt"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.