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Aunt

Kinship Institutions

An aunt is a female individual who is a sibling of a parent, or who is married to a sibling of a parent. Aunts who are related by birth are second-degree relatives; alternate terms include auntie or aunty. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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