Meaning

3 senses
  1. A child of a parent's sibling; a nephew or niece of a parent; a child of one's uncle or aunt.

    the child of your aunt or uncle

  2. A relative who has with the other person only two grandparents or one grandparent (maternal or paternal) in common, but parents are different.

  3. (broadly, figuratively)Anything closely related.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. How many first cousins do you have?

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  2. How many of your first cousins are girls?

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  3. First cousins have one set of grandparents in common.

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  4. Tom is Mary's first cousin, isn't he?

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  5. He's married to my first cousin.

    ruОн женат на моей двоюродной сестре.

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Forms

plural: first cousins
Singularfirst cousin
Pluralfirst cousins

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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