What does cousIn mean?

Definitions for cousIn
ˈkʌz əncousin

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousinnoun

    the child of your aunt or uncle

Wiktionary

  1. cousinnoun

    The son or daughter of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.

  2. cousinnoun

    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. Etymology: From cosin, from consobrinus, from com- + sobrinus

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. COUSINnoun

    Any one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister.

    Etymology: cousin, Fr. consanguineus, Lat.

    Macbeth unseam’d him from the nape to th’ chops,
    And fix’d his head upon our battlements.
    —— Oh, valiant cousin! worthy gentleman. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Tybalt, my cousin! O, my brother’s child!
    Unhappy sight! alas, the blood is spill’d
    Of my dear kinsman. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

    Thou art, great lord, my father’s sister’s son,
    And cousin german to great Priam’s seed. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cress.

ChatGPT

  1. cousin

    A cousin is a relative who is a child of one's aunt or uncle. This person shares a common ancestor, such as a grandparent, with you. The term can also be extended to further relationships, where more distant cousins are identified by degrees or removes based on their generational distance from the common ancestor.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cousinnoun

    one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt

  2. Cousinnoun

    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

  3. Cousinnoun

    allied; akin

  4. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cousin

    kuz′n, n. formerly a kinsman generally; now, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt: a term used by a sovereign in addressing another, or to one of his own noblemen: something kindred or related to another.—ns. Cous′in-ger′man, a first cousin: something closely related; Cous′inhood, Cous′inship.—adj. Cous′inly, like, or having the relation of, a cousin.—n. Cous′inry, cousins collectively.—First cousins, children of brothers and sisters—also called Cousins-german, Full cousins; First cousin once removed, the son or daughter of a cousin-german—sometimes loosely called Second cousin; Second cousins, the children of first cousins. [Fr.,—L. consobrinuscon, sig. connection, and sobrinus for sororinus, applied to the children of sisters—soror, a sister.]

Editors Contribution

  1. Cousin

    A relative of The same line and generation With Who a person have one or more same Grandparents or Great-Grandparents/Ancestors in The Common, other than The parents, thus, The First Cousins have The Same Grandparents in The Common, The Second Cousins have The Same Great-Grandparents in The Common, The Third Cousins have The Same Great-Great-Grandparents in The Common, The Remoted Cousins have The Same Remoted Ancestors in The Common etc.

    Cousins more Remoted than The Brothers Are.


    Submitted by fcatana14@gmail.com on September 11, 2020  


  2. cousinnoun

    Cooperative bloodline or lawful title as partners not named; but used by a speaker to refer to themselves as expressing within a period of time. 1.) A child of one's uncle or aunt. A person belonging to the same extended family. A thing related or analogous to another.

    Me and my cousin one in the same belief.

    Etymology: Family covenant


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on February 27, 2024  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. COUSIN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cousin is ranked #10292 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Cousin surname appeared 3,131 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Cousin.

    61.4% or 1,923 total occurrences were Black.
    29.2% or 915 total occurrences were White.
    4% or 126 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.9% or 125 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.7% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 18 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cousIn' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4039

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cousIn' in Nouns Frequency: #1595

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cousIn in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cousIn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cousIn in a Sentence

  1. Mohammed Safwan:

    My dad, my mum, my brothers, my elder sister and her children, my cousin and his son, a whole family of 12 people that left Izmir on a boat to Greece and then we learned the news yesterday.

  2. Seraphina Harrell:

    She was so loving. If you looked sad, she would comfort you. If you got even the slightest little poke, she would sign' sorry' and then kiss your boo-boo, when her baby cousin cried, she would sign' Baby, cry, Mama, milk.'.

  3. Sylvia Johnson:

    My cousin, being the nice, kind, welcoming person he is, he welcomed him to his congregation, welcomed him to the Bible study, and he sat there for an hour ... At the conclusion of the Bible study, they just heard just a ringing of a loud noise, and it was just awful from what I heard.

  4. Jonathan Sinn:

    Shawn was up there playing basketball with his brother and his cousin, he is 5-foot-5, 130 pounds, and it was just the three of them on the court playing when a car-load of kids, a car-load of teenagers … pulled into the lot. At that point they opened their windows and opened fire with, what at the time seemed to be a fully automatic firearm.

  5. Chris Lemanski:

    I was going through a pretty bad depression, i was kind of ready to give up and say the hell with it. The young man asked his cousin for advice on how to clear his head and he told him to take a long walk. Lemanski did just that. The traveler decided to make the journey in April 2016 after going through a period of depression. (Chris Lemanski ) In April 2016, Lemanski decided on the journey after looking up trails and saw one that went from Istanbul, Turkey to Portugal. The traveler said everything appeared to shift into place after he purchased a cheap ticket to Istanbul. Lemanski made the trek in 18 months, three of those months he was stuck in Morocco after he overstayed his visa for about three months. However, he was able to sneak out of the country and catch a boat to Germany where he continued his journey. As for how much money he spent in 18 months, Lemanski said he saved and people were generous.

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Translations for cousIn

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  • بنت خال, بنت عم, ابن خالة, ابن عمة, بنت خالة, بنت عمة, ابن خال, ابن عم, ولد عمArabic
  • стрые́чная сястра́, кузэ́н, кузі́на, стрые́чны братBelarusian
  • братовче́дка, братовче́дBulgarian
  • cosí, cosinaCatalan, Valencian
  • bratranec, sestřeniceCzech
  • cefnder, cyfnitherWelsh
  • kusine, fætterDanish
  • entfernte Verwandte, Vetter, Cousine, Kusine, Base, Cousin, entfernter VerwandterGerman
  • daa, fo, tsɛEwe
  • ξάδερφος, [[μακρινός]] [[ξάδερφος]]Greek
  • kuziĉo, kuzino, gekuzo, virkuzo, kuzoEsperanto
  • primo, primaSpanish
  • onutütar, nõbu, onupoeg, tädipoeg, täditütarEstonian
  • lehengusu, lehengusinaBasque
  • دخترعمه, پسردائی, پسرعمو, پسرعمه, دخترخاله, دختردائی, دخترعمو, پسرخالهPersian
  • pikkuserkku, sukulainen, serkkuFinnish
  • systkinabarnFaroese
  • cousine, cousinFrench
  • col ceathrair, col ceatharIrish
  • co-oghaScottish Gaelic
  • primo, prima, curmán, curmáGalician
  • בן-דודה, בת-דוד, דּוֹדָן, בת-דודה, דּוֹדָנִית, בן-דודHebrew
  • चचेरा भाईHindi
  • unokatestvérHungarian
  • զարմիկ, զարմուհիArmenian
  • sepupuIndonesian
  • kuzulo, kuzino, kuzoIdo
  • frændi, frænkaIcelandic
  • cugino, cuginaItalian
  • いとこ, 従兄弟, 従姉妹Japanese
  • illoq, illooraq, illukKalaallisut, Greenlandic
  • ជីដូនមួយKhmer
  • ಸೋದರಸಂಬಂಧಿKannada
  • 사촌Korean
  • ئامۆزاKurdish
  • kenderow, keniterowCornish
  • consobrina, patruelis, frater patruelis, consobrinus, soror patruelisLatin
  • pusbrolis, pusseserėLithuanian
  • brālēns, māsīcaLatvian
  • бра́тучед, брату́чедкаMacedonian
  • sepupuMalay
  • kozijn, neef, volle nicht, nicht, volle neefDutch
  • fetter, kusine, søskenbarnNorwegian
  • cosina, cosinOccitan
  • kuzyn, kuzynkaPolish
  • primo, primaPortuguese
  • cusregna, cusrin, cusdrina, cusregn, cusrina, cusdrinRomansh
  • vară, vărRomanian
  • двою́родный брат, ро́дственница, двою́родная сестра́, кузе́н, кузи́на, ро́дственникRussian
  • fradili, fradibi, fradile, fradiriSardinian
  • oambealle, vilbealle, oarpmealle, vilbaNorthern Sami
  • братић, rođak, братучед, bratić, bratučeda, drugobratučed, rođaka, другобратучеда, рођак, рођака, братучеда, bratučed, другобратучед, drugobratučedaSerbo-Croatian
  • bratranec, sesternicaSlovak
  • bratranec, sestričnaSlovene
  • kusinSwedish
  • binamuSwahili
  • బంధువుTelugu
  • ลูกพี่ลูกน้องThai
  • pinsanTagalog
  • amcaoğlu, dayıçocuğu, dayıoğlu, teyzeoğlu, dayıkızı, teyzekızı, amcaçocuğu, halaçocuğu, halaoğlu, amcakızı, halakızı, teyzeçocuğu, hala kızıTurkish
  • кузи́на, двою́рідний брат, брат у пе́рших, двою́рідна сестра́, кузе́нUkrainian
  • em họ, anh họ, chị họVietnamese
  • hiköstil, jiköstil, köst, hiköst, köstil, jiköstVolapük
  • cuzén, cuzeneWalloon
  • 表姐Chinese

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