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If you refer to two things or groups of people as c______, you mean that they are equivalents or that there is a connection between them.If you refer to two things or groups of people as cousins, you mean that they are equivalents or that there is a connection between them.
Whereas West Germans drink wine, their Eastern cousins prefer Schnapps.
The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin.
...misanthropy and its cousin racism.
word cousin
full-definition
noun
Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
My cousin Mark helped me.
We are cousins.
If you refer to two things or groups of people as cousins, you mean that they are equivalents or that there is a connection between them.
Whereas West Germans drink wine, their Eastern cousins prefer Schnapps.
The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin.
...misanthropy and its cousin racism.
inflections cousins
cefr-level A1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1

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