Usually means: Relative sharing common grandparents biologically.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word cousin:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cousin, cousin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cousin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cousin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cousin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cousin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cousin, cousin: Wordnik
  7. cousin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cousin: Wiktionary
  9. cousin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cousin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cousin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cousin, cousin: Dictionary.com
  13. cousin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cousin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cousin (disambiguation), Cousin, The Cousin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cousin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cousin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cousin: Rhymezone
  19. cousin, cousin(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cousin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cousin, Cousin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cousin: Free Dictionary
  23. cousin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cousin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. cousin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Cousin: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cousin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cousin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COUSIN, COUSIN, COUSIN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. cousin: Genealogy Glossary
  3. cousin: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cousin, cousin, cousin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the cousin: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cousinhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
noun:  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.
noun:  Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (British) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
noun:  (figurative, also attributive) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  (cant) A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
noun:  (cant) A person who is swindled; a dupe.
noun:  (rare) A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.
verb:  (transitive, rare)
verb:  To address (someone) as "cousin".
verb:  (also reflexive) To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly US, informal or regional)
verb:  To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
verb:  To visit a cousin or other relation.
noun:  A surname from Middle English

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