cousin

noun

/ˈkʌzn/

(also first cousin)
a child of your aunt or uncle同辈表亲（或堂亲）；堂兄（或弟、姊、妹）；表兄（或弟、姊、妹）
- She's my cousin.她是我的表妹。
- We're cousins.我们是表亲。
- This is my cousin Richard.这是我的表弟理查德。
- He's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).他是我们家的远房表亲。
- She's a cousin of the bride.她是新娘的表妹。
- cousin to somebody He claims to be a cousin to the Queen.他自称是女王的表弟。
see also country cousin, second cousin
Extra Examples
- Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York.她收到失散很久的堂亲从纽约寄来的一封信，完全出乎意料。
- I have a new baby cousin.我有个新出生的小堂妹。
Topics Family and relationshipsa1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- first
- second
- distant
- …
phrases
- cousin once, twice, etc. removed
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a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you远房亲戚；远亲
- She's some sort of cousin, I think.我想她是某种表亲。
- cousin of somebody/sb's He's a distant cousin of mine.他是我远房的一个表亲。
see also kissing cousinTopics Family and relationshipsb1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- first
- second
- distant
- …
phrases
- cousin once, twice, etc. removed
See full entry
[usually plural] a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country兄弟的…国人民（对与本民族有某些类似的另一国家人民的说法）
- our American cousins我们兄弟的美国人民
[usually plural] a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way同族；同类
- Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins.亚洲象比它们的非洲同类小些。
- These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.这些猪和野猪是近亲。

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).