Uncle vs X - What's the difference?
uncle | x |
A brother or brother-in-law of someone’s parent.
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*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
(lb) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.
(lb) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
A pawnbroker.
:(Thackeray)
A close male friend of the parents of a family.
an older male African-American person
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun uncle
is a brother or brother-in-law of someone’s parent.As an interjection uncle
is a cry used to indicate surrender.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.uncle
English
(wikipedia uncle)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (with regard to gender) aunt * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew * (African-American) boy * (India) auntyHyponyms
* paternal uncle * maternal uncle * (uncle gained by marriage) uncle-in-lawDerived terms
* agony uncle * Bob's your uncle * cry uncle * Dutch uncle * grand-uncle * great-uncle, great uncle * holler uncle * I'll be a monkey's uncle * nuncle * say uncle * Uncle Sam * Uncle Scrooge * Uncle TomReferences
* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=uncle&searchmode=none] * "uncle" in Merriam-Webster 1000 English basic words ----