uncle
Meaning of uncle
noun
- the brother of one's father or mother or the husband of one's aunt.
he visited his uncle
tell me something interesting, Uncle
Uncle Alfred
Middle English: from Old French oncle, from late Latin aunculus, alteration of Latin avunculus ‘maternal uncle’ (see avuncular).
suffix- forming chiefly diminutive nouns.
carbuncle
peduncle
from Old French -oncle, -uncle, or from Latin -unculus, a special form of -ulus .
Information about uncle
- The plural form of uncle is: uncles.
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Hyphenation of uncle
un-cle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- uncle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of uncle
Anagrams of uncle
Words that rhyme with uncle
ancle, incle, oncle, Uncle, carbuncle, caruncle, endosiphuncle, escarbuncle, furuncle, granduncle, homuncle, nuncle, peduncle, prepeduncle, pseudonymuncle, ratiuncle, sectiuncle, sermuncle, siphuncle, stepuncle, subpeduncle, vibratiuncle
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