Okay, this has bugged me for a long time.
My grandmother and grandfather are known, collectively, as my grandparents. My mother and father, my parents. If I had more than one brother or sister, they would be my siblings. What, then, is the collective noun for my aunt and uncle? I’m referring to the married unit (as in, my dad’s sister and her husband), not my parents’ siblings (as in, my dad’s sisters).
Help save my sanity in time for the holidays.
I tried a search, which you’ve probably done, and couldn’t find it.
Why not just call them your cousins’ parents?
I’m not sure there is a collective noun for aunts and uncles. If there were, I’d have heard it by now. I’m very old, you see.
Where’s lexicon? He’d know.
Well, yeah. I could call them my aunt and uncle, too. grin It just seems strange to me that there are collective nouns for other couples you’re related to, but apparently not one for your aunt and uncle.
Well, it is strange. (And I was kidding with the cousins’ parents thing.)
I don’t think the word exists, so it’s going to be up to us to invent one.
How about “satellites”?
Because aunts and uncles are on the fringe of the immediate family. And I’ve been babysat by an aunt, who also liked to tell stories about growing up with my mom.
Boy, that’s really lame. I’ll try harder.
I don’t think English has a collective noun for an aunt-uncle combination. For most societies, people tended to live with extended families where aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents were all living together or very close to one another.
In the Middle Ages, your aunt and uncle would have lived in the next shack over and probably not the next town over.
Collective nouns …
Relative clauses …
Relative nouns? 
How about “grandsiblings?”
Don’t feel bad. Some languages don’t even have collective nouns for parents. For example, in Hindi they say mâmbâp and in Turkish they say annebaba, both of which mean literally ‘motherfather’. So you could just coin an analogous term: “auntuncle.”
Peace
In Hindi, they have very precise names for every different sort of uncle and aunt. You have your father’s older brother, father’s younger brother, and their wives; father’s sister and her husband; mother’s brother, mother’s sister, and their spouses. That’s ten right there. Then there are the male and female cousins–multiply by two. I guess that’s what comes of living in very extended families! Even though in India they differentiate all the relatives with such fine distinctions, they tend to collapse them conceptually: your parents’s cousins become uncles & aunts, while your cousins are called “brother” and “sister”. Yet that doesn’t stop them from marrying their first cousins. Hmmm…