Definitions for cousIn
ˈkʌz əncousin

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

   the child of your aunt or uncle

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

   2. A title given by the king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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. consobrinus—con, sig. connection, and sobrinus for sororinus, applied to the children of sisters—soror, a sister.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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  

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   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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1. cousin

   The cousin symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the cousin symbol and its characteristic.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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Anagrams for cousIn »

1. scioun

How to pronounce cousIn?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say cousIn in sign language?

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. Ally Sharifu:

   My cousin was too good of a man. When you called him to help you, he would help, that’s why he went outside to get the milk, because he would n’t care what the outside looks like, he will try to come and help you.

2. Jason Rivera:

   I was thinking that me and my cousin we're going to die, me too.

3. Profession Sean Gulick:

   A much smaller cousin, or sister, doesn't necessarily add to what we know about the dinosaurs' extinction, but it does add to our understanding of the astronomical event that was Chicxulub.

4. Secoriea Turner:

   They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own, they killed my baby because he crossed a barrier and made a U-turn ? You killed a child. She didnt do nothing to nobody. Black Lives Matter ? You killing youre own. You killed an 8-year-old child. She aint did nothing to no one of yall. She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. Thats all she wanted to do.

5. Tito Torres:

   My cousin said you could hear people yelling until yesterday.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cousIn
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cousin
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cousIn
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cousIn
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=cousIn
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cousIn