Definitions for UNCLE

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UNCLE un·cle

Spelling: [uhng-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈʌŋ kəl/

Uncle is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in UNCLE (celnu).

Definitions for UNCLE

noun

1. a brother of one's father or mother.
2. an aunt's husband.
3. a familiar title or term of address for any elderly man.
4. Slang. a pawnbroker.
5. (initial capital letter) Informal. Uncle Sam.
6. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter U.

Idioms

1. say / cry uncle, Informal. to concede defeat:

Origin of UNCLE

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French uncle, Old French oncle Latin avunculus mother's brother, equivalent to av(us) mother's father + -unculus suffix extracted from diminutives of n-stems (

Examples for UNCLE

Why, of course not, uncle Peter; only I had to look around some at first,—for a year or so.

But uncle Peter had already put in some hard winters, and was not wanting in fortitude.

He was busy almost half an hour, while uncle Peter smoked in silence.

“They were wonderful cooks and had beautiful daughters,” says my uncle.

The uncle told RTL radio Hauchard called his grandmother, ostensibly from Syria, on Nov. 2, for her birthday.

In the simpler phrasing of uncle Peter Bines, he will "cut loose."

The young Jordanian pilot comes from a well-known military family in the kingdom and his uncle is a retired major general.

It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London Blitz was irritating.

uncle Peter stood in a flood of light at the door of his room.

Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam.