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English Dictionary: Uncle Sam by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Uncle Sam
n
  1. a personification of the United States government
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
      [be]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.
  
      2. A pawnbroker. [Slang] --Thackeray.
  
      {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.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Uncle Sam, LA
      Zip code(s): 70792
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