SECOND COUSIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second cousin mean? 

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

1. a child of a first cousin of one's parent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND COUSIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child of a first cousin of one's parent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

 Context examples 

The present Mr. Rochester's mother was a Fairfax, and second cousin to my husband: but I never presume on the connection—in fact, it is nothing to me; I consider myself quite in the light of an ordinary housekeeper: my employer is always civil, and I expect nothing more.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here also were the valiant Earl of Angus, Sir Thomas Banaster with his garter over his greave, Sir Nele Loring, second cousin to Sir Nigel, and a long column of Welsh footmen who marched under the red banner of Merlin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. "One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)