Auntとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: änt, IPA: /ɑːnt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [ɑːnt]
  • (General American) IPA: [ɑnt]
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: [äːnt], [ɐːnt]
  • (Atlantic Canada, Tidewater, SAE) IPA: [ɒːnt]
  • (New England) IPA: [ɑːnt], [aːnt]
  • (African-American Vernacular) IPA: [äːnt], [ɑːnt]

  韻: -ɑːnt

  Homophone: aren't (some non-rhotic accents)

• enPR: ănt, IPA: /ænt/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: [ænt], [ɛənt], [eənt]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: [ant], [änt], [ænt]

  韻: -ænt

  Homophone: ant

• (Scotland) IPA: /ant/, [änt]
• (New England) enPR: ônt, IPA: /ɔnt/

  韻: -ɔːnt

• (African-American Vernacular) enPR: ŭnt, IPA: /ʌnt/

  韻: -ʌnt

• (Southern 米国発音) enPR: ānt, IPA: /eɪnt/
• 韻: -eɪnt

  Homophone: ain't

名詞

aunt (plural aunts)

1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

2. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
3. (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
4. (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
5. (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
   • c. 1604–1606 (date written; published 1608), Thomas Middleton, “A Trick to Catch the Old One”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume II, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 267:

     I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.

     The spelling has been modernized.

使用する際の注意点

Aunt is capitalized when it is used as a title with a name: Have you written to Aunt Jane?

同意語

• auntie, aunty (diminutive)
• auntyji (India, as a respectful term of address)
• naunt (nonstandard, proscribed, dated)

反意語

• (with regard to gender) uncle
• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

上位語

• (sibling of someone's parent) auncle, pibling (nonstandard)

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• tante

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: ʻanakē
• → Irish: aint
• → Pennsylvania German: Aent
• → Yoruba: àǹtí

参考

• materteral

参照

Further reading

• aunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• -naut, Tuna, naut., tuan, tuna