cousin
/ˈkʌz(ə)n/ nom A1En français : cousin, cousine
- 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.
- 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. · Although we were cousins, we grew up like sisters.
- A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
- Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
- Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (UK) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
- Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
Pluriel cousins
Dans la bibliothèque
You two, my cousins, and you only, may.
“My cousin Chua, the rat, told me--” said Chuchundra, and then he stopped.
Her cousin lives there and Mrs.
“He’s been visiting his cousins over in New Brunswick all summer and he only came home Saturday night.
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