英语词汇“cousin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cousin

/ˈkʌz(ə)n

noun

1 (also first cousin) A child of one’s uncle or aunt.Not just the immediate family, but including all my aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews....

There is a great loyalty to one's immediate family and even beyond - to uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews.
At any given time, there are about ten kids outside, plus various aunts, uncles, cousins and other assorted relatives.

1.1A person in one’s wider extended family, to whom one is not closely related: she’s a distant cousin...

This man is surely a distant cousin; probably a descendant of Cap'n Skewes!
An extended family tree will grow to include many distant cousins.
He and Joe were distant cousins on his mother's side.

1.2A thing related or analogous to another: the new motorbikes are not proving as popular as their four-wheel cousins...

After all that effort, to have the Pentecostals create a powerful Religious Right in South America analogous to its cousins in the North?
The result of all these developments is that, finally, the digital scope could make its analogue cousin obsolete.
There is no doubt that choline and its cousins are related to memory.

1.3 (usually cousins) A person of a kindred race or nation: our American cousins...

In the spring, these British birds can beat their Spanish cousins back to Germany, getting dibs on the best nesting sites.
Of course, once permanently established, the Australian settlers lived and worked as their forebears in England and their cousins in North America.
Despite having to get used to American spellings she quickly took to the game, and continued to play on board an ocean liner as she crossed the Pacific to visit more cousins in Australia.

1.4 historical A title formerly used by a sovereign in addressing another sovereign or a noble of their own country.

Phrases

first cousin once removed

first cousin twice removed

second cousin

second cousin once removed

third cousin

Derivatives

cousinhood

noun ...

In many respects, in fact, the Enlightenment starts here: with the first members of the cousinhood of architects, scientists, and lawyers, and the principles which underlay their work.
Here the cousinhood played an important role, though its continuing influence was more obvious to the public in its manifestation on the board of directors.
In reality two particular kinds of privileged kinship emerge from the definition of the cousinhood in Fulani Society.

cousinly

adjective ...

Anna is around ten years older than me and a better friend, advocate and all-round cousinly kind of figure I really couldn't wish for.
I look at the baby he's saying is me, an infantile dot in a sea of cousinly humanity, on a farm I can't remember.
You don't have to act all protective cousinly on me.

cousinship