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COUSIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The child of your aunt or uncle
Synonyms:
cousin; cousin-german; first cousin; full cousin
Classified under:
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 have long had a good model before you, in your cousin Annie.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
No, it wouldn't, returned Jo, I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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)
No, Jane, you are not comfortable there, because your heart is not with me: it is with this cousin—this St. John.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As he loved his cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should retain her secret—the more so as the secret was a disgraceful one.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hot Jupiters, cousins to ultrahot Jupiters with dayside temperatures below 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 Celsius), were the first widely discovered type of exoplanet, starting back in the mid-1990s.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
It was painful to him even to keep a third cousin to himself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Nay, nay, my sweet cousin,” cried Don Pedro.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
