cousincous‧in /ˈkʌzən/ ●●● S2 noun [countable] 
a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetaminesclose/distant cousin The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.3someone or something that is similar to someone or something else: His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
WORD ORIGINcousin
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + sobrinus ‘cousin on the mother's side’ (from soror ‘sister’)EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Apes may be distant cousins of humans.
- The plantain is a large cousin of the banana.
- He'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals.
- Mary Donovan is a cousin of my father's!
- She was employed by cousin Gruner, the doctor, who had this work invented for her.
- The cousins were very polite and in fact charming.
- This was obviously not Silvia, Guido's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love!
- When I was little my cousin used to come over to my house.
WORD SETS
baby, nounbarrier method, nounbetrothal, nounboy, nounBr., branch, nouncontraception, nouncousin, noundescendant, noundescent, noundistant, adjectivedivorce, noundivorce, verbdivorced, adjectivedivorcée, noundomestic, adjectivedowry, noundynasty, nounex, nounextended family, nounfamilial, adjectivefamily man, nounfamily planning, nounfamily tree, nounfather, nounfather-in-law, nounfiancé, nounfiancée, nounfilial, adjectivefirst cousin, noungodchild, noungoddaughter, noungrandad, noungrandaddy, noungrandchild, noungranddad, noungranddaddy, noungranddaughter, noungrandfather, noungrandma, noungrandmother, noungrandpa, noungrandparent, noungrandson, noungranny, nounhalf-brother, nounhalf-sister, nounhereditary, adjectivehouse husband, nounin-laws, nounintermarry, verbmaiden aunt, nounmaid of honour, nounmam, nounmama, nounmamma, nounmammy, nounman, nounmarital, adjectivematrimony, nounmiscegenation, nounmixed marriage, nounmonogamy, nounnuclear family, nounoedipal, adjectiveOedipus complex, nounone-parent family, nounparent, nounparentage, nounparental, adjectiveparenthood, nounparenting, nounpaternity, nounpaternity suit, nounpatriarch, nounpatriarchy, nounpedigree, nounpolygamy, nounpropinquity, nounproposal, nounrelative, nounscion, nounseparate, verbseparated, adjectiveseparation, nounsibling, nounsingle parent, nounsister, nounsister-in-law, nounstepbrother, nounstepchild, nounstepdaughter, nounstepfather, nounstepmother, nounstepsister, nounstepson, noununcle, noununion, noununmarried, adjectiveupbringing, nounwedding, nounwedlock, nounwhite wedding, nounwidow, nounwidower, nounwidowhood, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIESCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1the child of your uncle or aunt → first cousin, kissing cousin, second cousin2something that has the same origins as something elsecousin of/to The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.· The Citizen's Charter Unit is a close cousin of Labour's proposed ministry for women.· The current generation of anti-depressants, developed in the 1980s, includes Prozac and its close chemical cousins Zoloft and Paxil.· There is rage, self-defeat and its close psychic cousin, compulsive overachievement.· At Hillier's, however, there were two close cousins that would look splendid in any garden.· Christopher started off with prawns cooked in coriander, ginger and garlic, accompanied by a close cousin of the Hellmans family.
· A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.· Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.· Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin.· He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.· To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.· They were, in fat, distant cousins, something they never found out.· The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
· I can't stand and gossip with Dadda's old cousin and make a fruit cake from Mammy's recipe.· Authorities believe the gun discharged after Ellis' 7-year-old cousin tried to take it away.· At the front of my grandmother's house one of my older cousins ran a shop.· Guks, my fourteen-year-old cousin, had been to Berlin recently.
· Soon, three or four of the younger cousins were engaged in the conversation, listening with open-eyed wonder to their stories.· Last week it was a young cousin of mine and his bride.
NOUN· But Davao is a country cousin.· Compared to the slick colored maps of seismic tomography, these cartoons seem like country cousins.
VERB· Since then, Chee also has discovered that a Navajo cousin lives nearby in Maine.· The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.· She played with her Challiss cousins, who lived next door.· Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin, who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.· I happened to be in Berthing again - cousin of mine lives there.· At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.· Got a cousin living just outside Yelton.
· He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.· She married a cousin and went off to Norfolk and had ten children and ran a large household.· Should she violate Catholic law by marrying a cousin?· At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.· In 1955 he married her cousin, Mary Katherine, daughter of Ralph Wedmore, a businessman.· In 1827 he married his cousin Mary, daughter of Robert Harrild, manufacturer of printing machinery.· In 1853 he married his first cousin, Henrietta Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wood.
· It was a hot, sunny day in summer when Cathy and I rode out to meet her cousin.· We met cousins whom we had not seen and made friends easily with other children also on their way to the coast.· I've promised to meet my cousin at that Inn on the Point at half past one.· Percy, meet my cousin, Meg Patrick.
· I even had some distant relatives living here, of the sort that are called cousins, seven times removed.
· We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own.· But before they really settled in, Amelia, alone, went to visit her cousins, the Challisses, in Atchison.· Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin, who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.· You come visit me, cousin.· One day Mum took Katy and Jamie to visit their big cousin Jane.· I recently visited my cousin, and Joe and Steven kept making fun of me.· Sue is visiting her cousin. 2.
a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetaminesclose/distant cousin The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.3someone or something that is similar to someone or something else: His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.- satphone
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