FIRST COUSIN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does first cousin mean?

• FIRST COUSIN (noun)
The noun FIRST COUSIN has 1 sense:

1. the child of your aunt or uncle

Familiarity information: FIRST COUSIN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIRST COUSIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The child of your aunt or uncle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cousin; cousin-german; first cousin; full cousin

Hypernyms ("first cousin" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Context examples

A child of your first cousin.

(First Cousin Once Removed, NCI Thesaurus)

I was inclined to interpolate, as I looked at him, that I had seen his first cousin in Kensington.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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