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

  • (..) just like in one german movie, where there was a maniac who was whistling before he killed. And his nickname was Fanch the whistler. Don't be nervous. I had cousins, to whom he did all that. You know what we, jews, are We feel nervous for nothing. How he got killed? He was shot during a control (..)
    1981 To Kill a Cop