What is the difference between dell and aunt?
dell | aunt | Derived terms |
valley
* 1794, , lines 49-50
* Tickell
(obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
* Ben Jonson
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
Dell is a derived term of aunt.
As nouns the difference between dell and aunt
is that dell is valley while aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.dell
English
Noun
(en noun)- To this day they dwell
- In a lonely dell .
- In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
- Sweet doxies and dells .
Synonyms
* dale * dingle * vale * valley * See alsoaunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.