Слово англійською: cousin
Іменник
Переклад cousin українською: двоюрідний брат, кузен; двоюрідна сестра, кузина, second ~ — троюрідний брат; троюрідна сестра, родич, forty-second ~ — далекий родич, C. Betty — а) недоумкуватий, дурник; б) повія
Детальний опис
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(also first cousin)
a child of your aunt or uncle- She's my cousin.
- We're cousins.
- This is my cousin Richard.
- He's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).
- She's a cousin of the bride.
- cousin to somebody He claims to be a cousin to the King.
see also country cousin, second cousin
- a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you
- She's some sort of cousin, I think.
- cousin of somebody/sb's He's a distant cousin of mine.
see also kissing cousin
- [usually plural] a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country
- [usually plural] a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way
- Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins.
- These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).