noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
agony aunt
maiden aunt
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elderly
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A great many people love their elderly Parent or aunt sufficiently to want to look after them.
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Instinctively we knew that terrible things were going to happen in our elderly aunts peaceful living room.
great
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I had no brother or sister and spent my holidays with my great aunt in the Isle of Wight.
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We could smoke and no great aunt would smell us and croak.
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My great aunt used to sit in her weekly bath, scrubbing the household washing.
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I had a great aunt in Arbourville.
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All very well, as one's great aunt might say, for those who like that sort of thing.
maiden
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When he was eighteen months old, the family broke up, his care passing to a maiden aunt .
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Shorting is not for maiden aunts .
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The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.
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The man of letters and the maiden aunt .
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Your aupair may be a born maiden aunt .
old
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Not them, nor the dress, nor the old aunts and uncles, nothing like that.
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Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty.
■ NOUN
agony
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While writing her agony aunt column, she remained busy as a reporter, interviewing figures including Margaret Thatcher.
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Being agony aunt was tricky and probably quite beyond her.
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I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt .
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In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine.
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Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.
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He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.
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Claire Rayner is a novelist, broadcaster and agony aunt .
■ VERB
live
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Conradin's parents were dead and he lived with his aunt .
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We used to live with my aunt but then it got too crowded there so we moved out.
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And so I was left to live alone with my aunt .
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Reprehensible as the crime was, the girls were put on a train to Minneapolis to live with an aunt .
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So we went to live with my aunt in Tembisa, a township in the East Rand.
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He discovered that her name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that she lived with her aunt , Mrs Hurst.
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Her parents are dead, so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children.
remember
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Look how he's remembered your aunt .
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I remember that my aunts thereafter decided that only cousins could come to our birthday parties.
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I remember two aunts and an uncle, all very dear to me, dying within a few months.
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This was the only time I could remember my aunt being right about anything.
stay
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In the meantime, I've arranged for her daughter to stay with an aunt .
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He stayed with his aunt and uncle.
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I was going to stay with my aunt .
visit
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We were going to visit my aunt and uncle who have lived there for the past five years.
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The next morning Lord Henry went to visit his aunt , Lady Agatha.
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She leaves to visit her aunt Gritty Moss; but he calls on her there, again pleading his love for her.
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You shall visit your aunt and uncle.
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Seth Bede walks with Dinah back to Hall Farm, where she is visiting her aunt .
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Take up walking to the shops or school. 4. Visit my ageing aunt . 5.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
maternal grandfather/aunt etc
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He inherited the honorary title from his maternal grandfather, William Harold Pearson.
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Her background was middle-class, cultured, my maternal grandfather being a rabbi.
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We are to christen this child Pilade, being the name of Ferdinando's maternal grandfather whom he wishes to honour.
my sainted aunt!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.
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I have stated earlier my aunt was a determined and ambitious woman.
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Jerome has an aunt and uncle in Laguna Hills and some relatives in South Dakota.
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My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.
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So my aunt talked three friends into skating down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
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The aunt was a prime ally.
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The Dodson aunts take pride in his stance in this hour of crisis.