cousin
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)cousins
- the child of your aunt or uncleSynonyms: first cousincousin-germanfull cousinType of relative, relation
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Translations
Noun child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
- Spanish
- primo
- French
- cousin
- German
- Cousin
- Italian
- cugino
- Portuguese
- primo
- Turkish
- kuzen
- Russian
- двою́родный брат dvojúrodnyj brat
- Arabic
- اِبْن عَمّ ibn ʕamm
- Chinese
- 表亲 biǎoqīn
- Japanese
- いとこ itoko
34 more languages
- Dutch
- neef
- Polish
- kuzyn
- Swedish
- kusin
- Greek
- ξάδερφος xáderfos
- Korean
- 사촌 sachon
- Indonesian
- sepupu
- Vietnamese
- anh chị em họ
- Hungarian
- unokatestvér
- Portuguese (PT)
- primo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 堂兄 tángxiōng
- Albanian
- kushëri
- Breton
- kenderv
- Catalan
- cosí
- Czech
- bratranec
- Danish
- fætter
- Esperanto
- kuzo
- Estonian
- nõbu
- Finnish
- serkku
- Georgian
- ბიძაშვილი biʒašvili
- Hebrew
- בן דוד ben-dód
- Icelandic
- frændi
- Kurdish
- pismam
- Latvian
- brālēns
- Lithuanian
- pusseserė
- Norwegian
- søskenbarn
- Romanian
- văr
- Scottish Gaelic
- co-ogha
- Serbo-Croatian
- bratić
- Slovak
- bratranec
- Slovenian
- bratranec
- Swahili
- binamu
- Walloon
- cuzén
- Welsh
- cefnder
- Yiddish
- שוועסטערקינד shvesterkind
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. cousin, LL. cosinus, cusinus, contr. from L. consobrinus the child of a mother's sister, cousin; con- + sobrinus a cousin by the mother's side, a form derived fr. soror (for sosor) sister. See Sister, and cf. Cozen, Coz.
1. One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
☞ The children of brothers and sisters are usually denominated first cousins, or cousins-german. In the second generation, they are called second cousins. See Cater-cousin, and Quater-cousin.
Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A cousin-german to great Priam's seed.— William Shakespeare
2. A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow.— William Shakespeare
Allied; akin. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54