"double aunt" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "double uncle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "double cousin"
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        {
          "ref": "1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235",
          "text": "The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Irwin Anderson Watson, The pioneers were our ancestors - Volumes 1-2, page 100",
          "text": "Aunt Mary was Uncle Burney 's double aunt. Now figure that out. She was Uncle Burney 's father's sister and also his mother's sister.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Sandra Ailey Petree, Recollections of Past Days",
          "text": "It's difficult to determine which aunt Patience may be referring to here, but Patience had a double aunt and uncle: Patience's mother's sister Elizabeth married Patience's father's brother Daniel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Carol Ericson, B.J. Daniels, The McClintock Proposal/High-Caliber Christmas",
          "text": "\"Of course she's your aunt Callie. She's married to your uncle Rod.\" Kelsey threw her head back and laughed. “Then she's a double aunt.” Dana coughed. \"Do you want some pie?\" \"What's a double aunt?\" Callie tilted her head, a half smile curving her lips. \"You're married to my Uncle Rod, Dad's brother, and you're also Mom's sister.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Timothy Larsen, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, page 115",
          "text": "A dominant influence on NIghtingale was her Aunt Mai (Mary Shore Smith, eventually a double aunt as she was her father's sister who married her mother's brother).",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Neil Christison, Wedded to a Genius: A Novel - Volume 1, page 201",
          "text": "I've just paid one to my double aunt.' Phelan ventured to ask what relationship that might be. ' She's my father's aunt first, and then she's mine next, and so she is really two aunts,' he explained. '",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, The Tucson Liberator - Volume 2",
          "text": "Proving that when good things come they come in pairs, Moss Kelly (9) was the twice proud father or twin boys last Thursday . . . this makes Louise Splane (3) a double aunt or something.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Rochelle Alers, Sweet Persuasions",
          "text": "\"If everything goes well, then you'll become a double aunt.\" \"When is the baby. . . I guess I should say when are the babies due?\" Selena asked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins."
      ],
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relative",
      "word": "kaksoistäti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "double aunt"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "double uncle"
    },
    {
      "word": "double cousin"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235",
          "text": "The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Irwin Anderson Watson, The pioneers were our ancestors - Volumes 1-2, page 100",
          "text": "Aunt Mary was Uncle Burney 's double aunt. Now figure that out. She was Uncle Burney 's father's sister and also his mother's sister.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Sandra Ailey Petree, Recollections of Past Days",
          "text": "It's difficult to determine which aunt Patience may be referring to here, but Patience had a double aunt and uncle: Patience's mother's sister Elizabeth married Patience's father's brother Daniel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Carol Ericson, B.J. Daniels, The McClintock Proposal/High-Caliber Christmas",
          "text": "\"Of course she's your aunt Callie. She's married to your uncle Rod.\" Kelsey threw her head back and laughed. “Then she's a double aunt.” Dana coughed. \"Do you want some pie?\" \"What's a double aunt?\" Callie tilted her head, a half smile curving her lips. \"You're married to my Uncle Rod, Dad's brother, and you're also Mom's sister.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Timothy Larsen, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, page 115",
          "text": "A dominant influence on NIghtingale was her Aunt Mai (Mary Shore Smith, eventually a double aunt as she was her father's sister who married her mother's brother).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other."
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Neil Christison, Wedded to a Genius: A Novel - Volume 1, page 201",
          "text": "I've just paid one to my double aunt.' Phelan ventured to ask what relationship that might be. ' She's my father's aunt first, and then she's mine next, and so she is really two aunts,' he explained. '",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, The Tucson Liberator - Volume 2",
          "text": "Proving that when good things come they come in pairs, Moss Kelly (9) was the twice proud father or twin boys last Thursday . . . this makes Louise Splane (3) a double aunt or something.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Rochelle Alers, Sweet Persuasions",
          "text": "\"If everything goes well, then you'll become a double aunt.\" \"When is the baby. . . I guess I should say when are the babies due?\" Selena asked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins."
      ],
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        "(rare) A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relative",
      "word": "kaksoistäti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "double aunt"
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