Usually means: Brother of parent; close relative.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word uncle:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uncle: Merriam-Webster
  3. -uncle, uncle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uncle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uncle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uncle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uncle, uncle: Wordnik
  8. uncle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uncle: Wiktionary
  10. uncle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uncle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uncle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uncle: Dictionary.com
  14. uncle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. uncle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Uncle, U.N.C.L.E, Uncle (EastEnders), Uncle (TV series), Uncle (disambiguation), Uncle (film), Uncle (novel), Uncle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Uncle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. uncle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. uncle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. U.N.C.L.E: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Uncle, Uncle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. uncle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. uncle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. uncle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. uncle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. uncle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  27. uncle: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -uncle: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. UNCLE: Acronym Finder
  4. uncle: Idioms
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncle, uncle, uncle, Uncle, Uncle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Uncle: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. U.N.C.L.E, uncle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See uncles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
noun:  The male cousin of one’s parent.
noun:  (endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
noun:  (euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
noun:  (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
noun:  (British, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
noun:  (especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and South Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
noun:  (Southern US, slang, archaic) An older African-American male.
noun:  (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter U.

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