Auntship

Quick meaning: Auntship is a noun meaning The status of being an aunt.

Meaning

The status of being an aunt.

Example Sentences

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.

Christina's letter to Mary Haydon about prospective auntship shows that she had looked forward to greater friendship. Now, barely a year later, this hope had vanished; and a certain regret tinged Christina's later references to Fame.

Edith, still rather in a dream, rather resentful that her dream was being broken, pulled herself together and said she had had a very nice time at Northbridge, and Mrs. Dunsford had said she did hope Mrs. Halliday would come and see the portrait of their ancestress; using the word ancestress because she could not remember exactly what degree of auntship or cousinship it was.

Word Forms

• auntships

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auntdom, aunt-in-law, auntie, aunt, aunting, aunty.

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