uncleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ŭngʹkəl, IPA: /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/
• 韻: -ʌŋkəl

名詞

uncle (plural uncles)

1. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 14:

     And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

2. The male cousin of one’s parent.
3. (endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
4. (euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
5. (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
6. (British, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
   • December 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Grant in Paris" (review), in Fraser's Magazine

     A chain hangs out of the pocket of his velvet waistcoat , by which we may conclude that he has a watch , though we have known many gents whose watches were at their uncle's (as the fashionable term for the pawnbroker goes)

7. (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.
8. (Southern US, slang, archaic) An older African-American male.
   • 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men:

     Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, — an immense talker.

9. (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener.

使用する際の注意点

Uncle is capitalized when it is used as a title with a name: Have you written to Uncle Fred?

同意語

• (dialectal, Scotland) eam, eme
• (archaic or dialectal) nuncle
• (India, as a respectful term of address) uncleji
• (familiar or endearing) uncley, unclie, uncly

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “with regard to gender”): aunt
• (antonym(s) of “with regard to ancestry”): niece, nephew
• (antonym(s) of “African-American”): boy
• (antonym(s) of “India”): aunty

上位語

• (sibling of someone's parent) auncle, pibling (both nonstandard)

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

間投詞

uncle

1. (US, colloquial) A cry used to indicate surrender.

派生語

• cry uncle
• say uncle

動詞

uncle (third-person singular simple present uncles, present participle uncling, simple past and past participle uncled)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
   • 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

     Betelgeuse Five, where he both fathered and uncled Ford

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “uncle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “uncle”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Clune

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus.

発音

• IPA: /ˈunklə/, /ˈunkəl/

名詞

uncle (plural uncles or (rare, West Midlands) unclen)

1. uncle (brother of one's parents)

   Synonym: em

派生した語

• English: uncle (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: uncle

参照

• “uncle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.