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cousin

noun
 
🔊/ˈkʌzn/
🔊/ˈkʌzn/
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  1.  
    (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.这是我堂兄理查德。
    • He's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).一旦被遣散，他就是堂兄。
    • She's a cousin of the bride.她是新娘的表弟。
    • cousin to somebody He claims to be a cousin to the Queen.他自称是女王的堂兄。
    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 Dictionaryadjective
    • first
    • second
    • distant
    • …
    phrases
    • cousin once, twice, etc. removed
    See full entry
  2.  
     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.我想她是表弟。
    • 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 Dictionaryadjective
    • first
    • second
    • distant
    • …
    phrases
    • cousin once, twice, etc. removed
    See full entry
  3. [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
  4. [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。
    5. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).