• Co-aunt

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    Full definition of co-aunt

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    co-aunt

    (plural co-aunts)
    1. 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.
    2. a woman's sister, as aunt in common to the children of a third sibling
      • 2008, August 04, , Camp Jean, A few years ago, my sister and co-aunt Judy started flying niece and nephew Violet and Dash down to California to spend a week with her

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    • (sibling's spouse's sister) co-sister-in-law (relative to the married siblings rather than to the children; however, this term generally refers to a different relationship, that of two women who marry brothers)

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