cousin
IPA: kˈʌzʌn
noun
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
- (specifically) Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
- (specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.
- (chiefly in the plural) A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
- Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
- Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (Britain) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
- (figurative, also attributive) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
- (obsolete)
- (cant) A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
- (cant) A person who is swindled; a dupe.
- (rare) A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.
- A surname from Middle English
verb
- (transitive, rare)
- To address (someone) as "cousin".
- (also reflexive) To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
- (intransitive, chiefly US, informal or regional)
- To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
- To visit a cousin or other relation.
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Examples of "cousin" in Sentences
- He was the first cousin of the first Baron.
- I am the cousin of the User HolyRomanEmperor.
- Big Star is the naive cousin of The Big Time.
- He was a cousin of the regicide, James Temple.
- He was the cousin of the poet Holger Drachmann.
- Ananda was the youngest first cousin of the Buddha.
- He is the cousin and resembles the guy in the photo.
- He is the son of Rayber, and the cousin of Tarwater.
- Additionally, the saucer is a distant cousin to the plate.
- According to Vanessa's cousin, there was no prenuptial agreement.