COUSIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cousin mean? 

• COUSIN (noun)
  The noun COUSIN has 1 sense:

1. the child of your aunt or uncle

  Familiarity information: COUSIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUSIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The child of your aunt or uncle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cousin; cousin-german; first cousin; full cousin

Hypernyms ("cousin" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Derivation:

cousinly (like or befitting a cousin)

 Context examples 

You might have more than usual interaction with your sibling or a cousin in November, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Charles Hayter was the eldest of all the cousins, and a very amiable, pleasing young man, between whom and Henrietta there had been a considerable appearance of attachment previous to Captain Wentworth's introduction.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ruth's eyes roved to him frequently to see how he was getting on, and she was surprised and gladdened by the ease with which he got acquainted with her cousins.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Through a cousin who works with Gelder, he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He wrote with his own hand his love to his cousin William, and sent him half a guinea under the seal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

These glands allow their cousins, the crocodiles, to excrete excess salt from marine environments.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

But FKBP51 looks a lot like its closest protein cousin, FKBP52.

(Depression, Obesity, Chronic Pain Could be Treated by Targeting the Same Key Protein, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The more a person’s genome carries genetic vestiges of Neanderthals, the more certain parts of his or her brain and skull resemble those of humans’ evolutionary cousins that went extinct 40,000 years ago.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

Then he said: “Ha, ha, that is certainly my little cousin, who died only a few days ago,” and he beckoned with his finger, and cried: “Come, little cousin, come.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)