Is aunt an adjective or noun?

aunt. / (ɑːnt) / noun (often capital, esp as a term of address) a sister of one's father or mother.
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Is aunt a noun or verb?

a sister or sister-in-law of someone's parent. (also great-aunt or grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law. (usually auntie) a grandmother.
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What is the adjective of aunt?

auntly. auntly. Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
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What type of noun is aunt?

The noun "aunt" (lower case a) is a common noun as a general word for a sister of your mother or your father. The noun "Aunt" (capital A) is a proper noun as the title of a specific person.
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Is uncle a adjective?

His reasoning was that "uncle" was the proper adjective to the proper noun Jim, hence its capitalization.
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Is uncle a noun or not?

uncle noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com.
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Is uncle a noun or pronoun?

A brother or brother-in-law of someone's parent.
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Is Aunt and Uncle a proper noun?

Similarly, other kinship titles like grandma, grandpa, aunt, and uncle are capitalized when used in place of a person's name but lowercased when used as common nouns.
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Is great aunt a noun?

The sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent, aunt of one's parent.
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Is friend a noun?

friend noun [C] (PERSON YOU LIKE)

a person who you know well and who you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family: She's my best/oldest/closest friend - we've known each other since we were five. He's a family friend/friend of the family.
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Which article is used for aunt?

Article an is correct because in the words uncle and aunt, 'u' and 'a' are vowels. An is used before a vowel and A is used before a consonant.
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What kind of noun is friends?

The word "friend" is a common noun. Notice that common nouns are nouns that refer to general things, people, animals, places, or ideas.
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Are is noun?

The word “are” is used as a noun to refer to that particular unit of measure. Example: Each paddock is one are in size.
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What is another name for aunt?

In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for aunt, like: mother's sister, nunky, father's sister, aunty, uncle's wife, tante (French), auntie, grandma, TÃa (Spanish), great-aunt and sistern.
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What is a proper noun?

Definition of proper noun

: a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English. — called also proper name.
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What do I call my grandma's sister?

The siblings of YOUR grandparents are your granduncle or grandaunt, not great uncle nor great aunt. Similarly, the siblings of YOUR great-grandparents are YOUR great- granduncle or great-grandaunt.
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Is Grand aunt correct?

As you noted, the proper term for your relationship to your brother's grandchildren is grandaunt, just like grandparent.
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What is a 2nd aunt?

Noun. second aunt (plural second aunts) A female first cousin of one's mother or father.
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Is mom a proper noun?

Mom is capitalized when used as a proper noun, but not when used as a common noun: I think Mom likes my new car. I think my mom will like you.
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Is grandma a proper noun?

The word "grandma" can be either a common noun or a proper noun.
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What does the word aunt?

Definition of aunt

1 : the sister of one's father or mother. 2 : the wife of one's uncle or aunt.
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Is Dad a noun or pronoun?

Dad is a noun - Word Type.
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Is Cousin a noun?

The son or daughter of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin. Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
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What type of noun is father?

Father is a proper noun - Word Type.
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