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▸ 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
Similar:
cousin-german,
full cousin,
first cousin,
brother,
aunt,
sister,
niece,
uncle,
nephew,
friend,
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Opposite:
Types:
first cousin,
second cousin,
third cousin,
fourth cousin,
fifth cousin,
sixth cousin,
seventh cousin,
eighth cousin,
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