Crossword clues for cousin
cousin
- Half-Berber dish, trendy one in my family
- Uncle's or aunt's child
- Family member
- Reunion attendee
- Girl from uncle?
- "Kissin'" relative
- Kissing kin
- Aunt's child
- Your aunt's kid
- Your aunt's child
- Uncle's son
- Uncle's child
- Son or daughter of an uncle or aunt
- Sofia Coppola, to Nicolas Cage
- Jenny McCarthy, to Melissa McCarthy
- Dionne Warwick, to Whitney Houston
- Dionne Warwick to Whitney Houston, e.g
- Dad's nephew
- Caroline Kennedy, to Maria Shriver
- "My __ Vinny": 1992 comedy
- ___ Itt of the Addams Family
- Unsophisticated type in a state, relatively speaking?
- Term of familiarity
- Kissin' kin
- Close relative
- "The Country ___" (1936 Oscar-winning Disney short)
- One who may be removed
- "Kissing" relative
- One may be removed
- Cricket, to a grasshopper, or vice versa
- The child of your aunt or uncle
- Half a French film title: 1975
- Balzac's "___ Bette"
- "Our American ___," last play Lincoln attended
- King-to-king word
- "My ___ Rachel," 1952 film
- Money used to accommodate American relative
- Sovereign, say, entertaining American relative
- Relative taking care of you and me at home
- Relative from America in the money?
- Relative brings us into money
- Piece about American person once removed?
- Penny, say, hugging American relative
- Brief function to host posh relative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cousin \Cous"in\, n.
Allied; akin. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Cousin \Cous"in\ (k[u^]z"'n), n. [F. cousin, LL. cosinus, cusinus, contr. from L. consobrinus the child of a mother's sister, cousin; con- + sobrinus a cousin by the mother's side, a form derived fr. soror (for sosor) sister. See Sister, and cf. Cozen, Coz.]
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One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
Note: The children of brothers and sisters are usually denominated first cousins, or cousins-german. In the second generation, they are called second cousins. See Cater-cousin, and Quater-cousin.
Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A cousin-german to great Priam's seed.
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A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., from Old French cosin (12c., Modern French cousin) "nephew, kinsman, cousin," from Latin consobrinus "cousin," originally "mother's sister's son," from com- "together" (see com-) + sobrinus (earlier *sosrinos) "cousin on mother's side," from soror (genitive sororis) "sister."\n
\nItalian cugino, Danish kusine, Polish kuzyn also are from French. German vetter is from Old High German fetiro "uncle," perhaps on the notion of "child of uncle." Words for cousin tend to drift to "nephew" on the notion of "father's nephew."\n
\nMany IE languages (including Irish, Sanskrit, Slavic, and some of the Germanic tongues) have or had separate words for some or all of the eight possible "cousin" relationships, such as Latin, which along with consobrinus had consobrina "mother's sister's daughter," patruelis "father's brother's son," atruelis "mother's brother's son," amitinus "father's sister's son," etc. Old English distinguished fæderan sunu "father's brother's son," modrigan sunu "mother's sister's son," etc.\n
\nUsed familiarly as a term of address since early 15c., especially in Cornwall. Phrase kissing cousin is Southern U.S. expression, 1940s, apparently denoting "those close enough to be kissed in salutation;" Kentish cousin (1796) is an old British term for "distant relative."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin. 2 Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc. 3 (context obsolete English) (non-gloss definition: A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.)
WordNet
n. the child of your aunt or uncle [syn: first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin]
Wikipedia
A cousin is a child of one's uncles and aunts.
Systems of "degrees" and "removals" are used in the English-speaking world to describe the exact relationship between two cousins (in the broad sense) and the ancestor they have in common. Various governmental entities have established systems for legal use that can more precisely specify kinships with common ancestors existing any number of generations in the past, though common usage often eliminates the degrees and removals and refers to people with common ancestry as simply "distant cousins" or "relatives".
Cousin may refer to:
- Cousin, the child of one's aunt or uncle or any relative who shares a common ancestor
- Cousin Island, a small granitic island of the Seychelles
- Cousin, cousine, a 1976 French language film which tells the story of cousins-by-marriage who have an affair
- Cousin prime, a pair of prime numbers that differ by four
- Cousin problems, two math questions in several complex variables, concerning the existence of meromorphic functions
- Protolampra sobrina, a noctuid moth known as "Cousin German" in Britain
Specific "cousins" include:
- Cousin Bette ( La Cousine Bette), an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac that was made into a 1998 movie starring Jessica Lange
- Cousin Brucie, a nickname for radio personality Bruce Morrow
- Cousin Creep, an Australian known for his involvement in Melbourne alternative and independent music scenes
- Cousin Dupree, a song by Steely Dan from their 2000 Album Two Against Nature
- Cousin Elmer. an independent professional wrestler
- Cousin Henry, a novel by Anthony Trollope in 1879
- Cousin Joe, a blues and jazz singer born in 1907
- Cousin Itt, a member of the fictional Addams Family in the 1964 television series
- Cousin Oliver, a metaphor to denote the decision to add a cute child actor to the cast of a television program to improve its ratings
- Cousin Skeeter, a comedy television show which ran on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2001
- Cousin Tuny, an American radio personality who was popular in the 1960s
People actually named Cousin include:
- Alan Cousin, Scottish footballer
- Aurelien Cousin, Maltese water polo player
- Daniel Cousin, Gabonese footballer
- Ertharin Cousin, American ambassador
- Victor Cousin, a French philosopher born in 1792
Usage examples of "cousin".
Besides father and mother, three sons, and a hired girl, there was nearly always an Adams or Boylston cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend staying the night.
In addition to the lawyer son Samuel, there were sons Edmund and Josiah, who was also a lawyer, as well as a daughter, Hannah, and a cousin, Esther, who, for Adams and his friends, were the prime attractions.
She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.
Then it occurred to him that his cousin, Sir Alured was in town, and that he had better see his cousin before he came to any decision.
The bloodlines of most Amish, and those Mennonites descended from them, are so tangled and intertwined that most of us are our own cousins.
For some strange reason, my Amish cousin and the Hollywood whiz kid had hit it off.
All the ammonites vanished, but their cousins the nautiloids, who lived similar lifestyles, swam on.
Madame Gennaro was very angry and told my newly-found cousin that he might have avoided enacting such a scene before her husband, knowing his disease, but he answered that he never thought the circumstance likely to provoke mirth.
Marcoline smiled and I answered that she was my cousin, and that we were both Venetians.
William Hush and all his cousins sold apples by the ton and illegal homemade apple brandy by the barrelful.
Tallant, you cherish hopes of seeing Arabella married to her cousin Tom?
We were obliged to confess that there were no Families in Little Arcady, in the true sense of the term, though we did not divine its true sense until she favored us with the detail that her second cousin had married a relative of the Adams family.
Even though the young Arii had seen me he would not have raised his hand to harm me, for he too would gladly see the ship cast away and broken upon the reef, so that he need not leave my cousin Alrema.
An admission of fear of anything is hard to elicit from the weakest of Indian tribes, but all who lived within raiding distance of the Apache, save the Navaho, their Athapascan cousins, freely admit that for generations before their subjugation the Apache were constantly held in mortal terror.
I could not ask his Avarians to press into battle against their brothers and cousins.