- (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。
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsa1Completely 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- distant
- …
- 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- distant
- …
- cousin once, twice, etc. removed
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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
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a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way 同族；同类
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).