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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Uncle Sam (0.00942 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Uncle Sam.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Uncle Sam Uncle Sam n : a personification of the United States government
English → English (gcide) Definition: Uncle Sam Uncle \Un"cle\, n. [OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr. L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather; akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw? grandmother, Icel. [=a]i great grandfather.] 1. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship. [1913 Webster] 2. A pawnbroker. [Slang] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 3. An eldery man; -- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, “Uncle Remus.” [Colloq.] Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, -- an immense talker. --Emerson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. [1913 Webster]

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