Tante (novel)
Tante is the French, Dutch (Nederland), German, Danish, and Yiddish word for aunt (female sibling of a parent) ''Tante'' may also refer to: * A novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, upon which the film ''The Impossible Woman'' is based * Tante Leen (1912–1992), Dutch folk singer * Tante Rose, a racehorse * Tante Sidonia, a character from the Belgian comics series ''Suske en Wiske'' * Tante Koosje, a restaurant located in Loenen aan de Vecht in the Netherlands * Tante Marie, a cookery school in Woking, Surrey, England * La Tante DC10 Restaurant, Accra, Ghana; a restaurant built into a green DC-10 former airliner * La Tante River, Grenada; a river on the island of Grenada See also

* Upper La Tante, Saint David, Grenada; a town * ''La grand'tante'' (The Great-Aunt), an 1867 comic opera {{disambiguation ...
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Aunt
An aunt is a woman who is a sibling of a parent or married to a sibling of a parent. Aunts who are related by birth are second-degree relatives. Known alternate terms include auntie or aunty. Children in other cultures and families may refer to the cousins of their parents as aunt or uncle due to the age and generation gap. The word comes from la, amita via Old French ''ante'' and is a family relationship within an extended or immediate family. The male counterpart of an aunt is an uncle, and the reciprocal relationship is that of a nephew or niece. Additional terms * A half-aunt is a half-sister of a parent. * An aunt-in-law is the aunt of one's spouse and is the wife of the uncle of somebody. . * A great-aunt/grandaunt (sometimes written grand-aunt) is the sister of one's grandparent. Despite the popular usage of great-aunt, genealogists consider it more correct to use grandaunt for a grandparent's sister to avoid confusion with earlier generations. Similarly, the ...
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