cousin

From Middle English cosyn, from Old French cosin, from Latin cōnsōbrīnus, from com- + sōbrīnus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌz.n̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌz.ɪn/, /ˈkʌzən/
• (US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰɐz.ən]

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• Rhymes: -ʌzən
• Homophone: cozen (weak vowel merger)

cousin (plural cousins)

1. The child of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin.

   I think my cousin is a good man.

2. Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
3. (obsolete) 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.
   • Shakespeare

     My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow.

4. (figuratively) Something kindred or related to another.

• People who have common grandparents but different parents are first cousins. People who have common great-grandparents but no common grandparents and different parents are second cousins, and so on.
• In general, one’s nth cousin is anyone other than oneself, one's siblings or nearer cousins found by going back n+1 generations and then forward n+1 generations. One of one's first cousin's parents is one's parents' siblings. One of one's second cousin's grandparents is one of one's grandparents' siblings.
• The child of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin once removed; the grandchild of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin twice removed, and so on. For example, if Phil and Marie are first cousins, and Marie has a son Andre, then Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed.
• In the southern US, the relation is considered the number of links between two people of common ancestry to the common aunt or uncle.
• A patrilineal or paternal cousin is a father's niece or nephew, and a matrilineal or maternal cousin a mother's. Paternal and maternal parallel cousins are father's brother's child and mother's sister's child, respectively; paternal and maternal cross cousins are father's sister's child and mother's brother's child, respectively.

• (nephew or niece of one's parent): first cousin

• once removed
• twice removed

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• IPA^(key): /ku.zɛ̃/

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From Middle French cousin, from Old French cosin, from Latin cōnsōbrīnus.

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousine)

1. cousin (male)

From Latin culicīnus (“mosquito-like”), from culex (“gnat, midge”).

cousin m (plural cousins)

1. crane fly

• maringouin

• cousinière (“protective mesh against crane flies”)

• “cousin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French cosin.

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine singular cousine, feminine plural cousines)

1. male cousin

• French: cousin

• couôsîn (Standard Jèrriais)
• couôthîn (Saint Ouen)

From Old French cosin, from Latin cōnsōbrīnus.

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousaine)

1. (Guernsey) (male) cousin