cousin

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cousin [cousin cousins] BrE [ˈkʌzn] NAmE [ˈkʌzn] noun
1. (also ˌfirst ˈcousin)a child of your aunt or uncle
• She's my cousin.
• We're cousins.
see also ↑country cousin, ↑second cousin
2. a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you
• He's a distant cousin of mine.
3. usually plural a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country
•our American cousins
4. usually plural a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way
• Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins.
See also: ↑first cousin

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).

Example Bank:
•Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York.
•I have a new baby cousin.
•She's my first cousin once removed.
•These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.
•the popular idea that creativity and madness are kissing cousins

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin