cousin

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cous·in /ˈkʌzən/ S2 noun [countableC] → cozen

1. SSFthe child of your uncle or aunt 堂[表]兄弟；堂[表]姐妹 → first cousin , kissing cousin, second cousin

2 LIKE/SIMILARsomething that has the same origins as something else 同源物，同類物

cousin of/to

a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetamines

和安非他明屬於同類化學物的一種藥物

close/distant cousin

The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.

阿拉斯加棕熊是這種灰熊的近親。

3 someone or something that is similar to someone or something else 相似的人[物]

His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.

他那種有點接近爵士樂的前衛派音樂，喜歡的人有限。

Examples from the Corpus

cousin• Mary Donovan is a cousin of my father's!• He'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals.• She was employed by cousin Gruner, the doctor, who had this work invented for her.• Apes may be distant cousins of humans.• The plantain is a large cousin of the banana.• When I was little my cousin used to come over to my house.• This was obviously not Silvia, Guido's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love!• The cousins were very polite and in fact charming.

close/distant cousin• The Citizen's Charter Unit is a close cousin of Labour's proposed ministry for women.• He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.• Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin.• To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.• A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.• They were, in fat, distant cousins, something they never found out.• Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.

Origin cousin

(1200-1300) Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus, from com- ( → COM-) + sobrinus “cousin on the mother's side” (from soror “sister”)

cous·in noun

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