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FIRST COUSIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does first cousin mean?
• FIRST COUSIN (noun)
The noun FIRST COUSIN has 1 sense:
1. the child of your aunt or uncle
Familiarity information: FIRST COUSIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The child of your aunt or uncle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cousin; cousin-german; first cousin; full cousin
Hypernyms ("first cousin" is a kind of...):
Context examples
A child of your first cousin.
(First Cousin Once Removed, NCI Thesaurus)
I was inclined to interpolate, as I looked at him, that I had seen his first cousin in Kensington.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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