cousin
/ˈkʌzn̩/
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman; A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality; also, a title for such a person
- Plural
- cousins
Bedeutungen
- 1
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman
Tom and Mary are cousins.
Tom und Maria sind Cousin und Cousine.
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She and I are cousins.
Sie und ich sind Cousins.
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- 2
A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality
- 3
also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person — Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to
- 4
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.; Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another personselten
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Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.; When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousinselten
- 6
specifically (UK) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank — Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a nobleselten
- 7
Something kindred or related to something else; a relativeselten
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A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostituteselten
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A person who is swindled; a dupeselten
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A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizerselten