How to pronounce “cousin”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
• (chiefly in the plural) A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
• Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
• Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (British) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
• (figurative, also attributive) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
• (obsolete)
• [Verb]
• (transitive, rare)
• (intransitive, chiefly US, informal or regional)

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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