cousin

Definition

  • noun: a child of your uncle or aunt
  • noun: a child of one's uncle or aunt
  • used as a title by a sovereign in addressing a nobleman
  • synonyms: akin, allied, aunt

Examples

  • Everyone came to the wedding, including a distant 'cousin' no one had heard from in years.

  • He's her 'first cousin'. = He and she are 'first cousins'.

  • He says politics and show business are 'kissing cousins'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) I do beseech you give him leave to go Take thy fair hour Laertes, thy time be thine, and thy best graces spend it at thy will But now our cousin Hamlet, and our son A little more than kin and less than kind - How is it that the clouds still hang on you? - Not so my lord, I am too much in the sun (..)
    2015 Hamlet