Aunt vs Vaunt - What's the difference?
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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:
(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.
1000 English basic words
To speak boastfully.
* 1829 — , chapter XC
To speak boastfully about.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
* Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
* Milton
A boast; an instance of vaunting.
* Milton
* 1904 — , Book II, chapter III
As nouns the difference between aunt and vaunt
is that aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent while vaunt is a boast; an instance of vaunting or vaunt can be (obsolete) the first part.As a verb vaunt is
to speak boastfully.aunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.
Antonyms
* (with regard to gender) uncle * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephewHyponyms
* (qualifier, sister of someone's father) paternal aunt * (qualifier, sister of someone's mother) maternal auntDerived terms
* Auntie * auntie, aunty * agony aunt * big auntie * great-aunt * grandaunt * little auntie * mine aunt * nauntSee also
* (l)Anagrams
* (l)References
vaunt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) vaunter, variant of (etyl) vanter, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
Synonyms
* (speak boastfully) boast, bragDerived terms
* vaunterNoun
(en noun)- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- He has answered me back, vaunt' for ' vaunt , rhetoric for rhetoric.