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Aunt vs Auntly - What's the difference?

aunt | auntly |

As a noun aunt

is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.

As an adjective auntly is

of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.

As an adverb auntly is

in the manner of an aunt.

aunt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.
  • * 2007 , Nancy Eshelman, A Piece of My Mind: Columns from the Patriot-News , page 35:
    • I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.
  • (also'' great-aunt ''or grandaunt) A person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.
  • (usually auntie) A grandmother.
  • An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

    • Antonyms

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

    Hyponyms

    * (qualifier, sister of someone's father) paternal aunt * (qualifier, sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt

    Derived terms

    * Auntie * auntie, aunty * agony aunt * big auntie * great-aunt * grandaunt * little auntie * mine aunt * naunt

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    References

    1000 English basic words

    auntly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
    • Her auntly behavior always made me blush.
  • *2001 , Mary Evans, Feminism :
    • The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.
  • *2012 , Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage :
    • He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In the manner of an aunt.