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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024un•cle /ˈʌŋkəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a brother of one's father or mother.
- an aunt's husband.
Idioms- Idioms, Informal Terms say or cry uncle, [no object] to admit defeat.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024un•cle (ung′kəl),USA pronunciation n. - a brother of one's father or mother.
- an aunt's husband.
- a familiar title or term of address for any elderly man.
- Slang Termsa pawnbroker.
- Informal Terms(cap.) Uncle Sam.
- a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter U.
- Informal Terms say or cry uncle, to concede defeat:They ganged up on him in the schoolyard and made him say uncle.
- Latin avunculus mother's brother, equivalent. to av(us) mother's father + -unculus suffix extracted from dims. of n-stems (see homunculus)
- Anglo-French uncle, Old French oncle
- Middle English 1250–1300
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