co-aunt

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co-aunt

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* co- + aunt

noun co-aunts

of a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings.
a woman's sister, as aunt in common to the children of a third sibling A few years ago, my sister and co-aunt Judy started flying [our niece and nephew] Violet and Dash down to California to spend a week with her
Similar: co-sister-in-law

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@misc{co_aunt_2026,
  title = {co-aunt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/co-aunt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}