Cousin ˈkʌzn She's Noun Richard Removed Separated Generation

• she's my cousin.
• we're cousins.
• this is my cousin richard.
• he's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).

cousin

1. a child of your aunt or uncle
• SEE ALSO country cousin
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/country-cousin
• She's my cousin.
• We're cousins.
• This is my cousin Richard.
• He's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).
• She's a cousin of the bride.
• He claims to be a cousin to the Queen.

Extra Examples

• Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York.
• I have a new baby cousin.
2. a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you
• SEE ALSO kissing cousin
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/kissing-cousin
• She's some sort of cousin, I think.
• He's a distant cousin of mine.
3. a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country
• our American cousins
4. a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way
• Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins.
• These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.

Word Origin

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