cousin
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.
Other meanings
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 person.
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 cousin.
Synonyms
- full cousin
Related words
- cousincest
- cousinfucking
- grandcousin
- noncousin
- stepcousin
- cater-cousin
- country cousin
- false cousin
- half first cousin
- cousinal
- cousinfucker
- cousinhood
Word history
From Middle English "cosin".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cousin” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.