cousin

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n cousin the child of your aunt or uncle
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William sitting on a bench with Miss Drew and her cousin

• Interesting fact: Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The name was changed in 1917, during WW1 because of German connotations. The name Windsor was suggested by one of the staff. At the same time the Battenberg family name of the cousins to the Windsors was changed into Mountbatten.
• • Cousin 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. "My noble lords and cousins , all, good morrow."
  • n Cousin Allied; akin. "Agnate words.""Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former."
  • Cousin One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. "Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,
    A cousin-german to great Priam's seed."
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• Interesting fact: Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee are the only brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence. Their cousin, Henry Lee, was a famous Revolutionary War commander and the father of General Robert E. Lee.
• • n cousin In general, one collaterally related by blood more remotely than a brother or sister; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman; hence, a term of address used by a king to a nobleman, particularly to one who is a member of the council, or to a fellow-sovereign. In English royal writs and commissions it is applied to any peer of the degree of an earl—a practice dating from the time of Henry IV., who was related or allied to every earl in the kingdom.
  • n cousin Specifically, in modern usage The son or daughter of an uncle or an aunt, or one related by descent in a diverging line from a known common ancestor. The children of brothers and sisters are called cousins, cousins german, first cousins, or full cousins; children of first cousins are called second cousins, etc. Often, however, the term second cousin is loosely applied to the son or daughter of a cousin german, more properly called a first cousin once removed.
  • cousin Allied; kindred.
  • cousin To call “cousin”; claim kindred with. See cousin, n.
  • cousin An obsolete spelling of cozen.
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• Interesting fact: Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.
• • n Cousin kuz′n formerly a kinsman generally; now, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt: a term used by a sovereign in addressing another, or to one of his own noblemen: something kindred or related to another
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• H. L. Mencken

  

  “Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”
• Napoleon III

  

  “The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
• Bedouin Proverb

  

  “I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.”

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