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First Cousin

Definition: First Cousin

First Cousin

Noun

1. The child of your aunt or uncle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: First Cousin

Synonyms: cousin (n), cousin-german (n), full cousin (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: First Cousin

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Consanguinity

Kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice; removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: First Cousin

English words defined with "first cousin": second cousin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "first cousin": Malambruno. (references)

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Commercial Usage: First Cousin

DomainTitle

Books

  • My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness, and the Family of Robert Lowell (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: First Cousin

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

For example, one first cousin may have lupus, another may have dermatomyositis, and one of their mothers may have rheumatoid arthritis. (references)

Economic History

Marshall Islands

Amata Kabua was elected as the first president of the republic in 1979. Subsequently, he was re-elected to 4-year terms in 1983, 1987, 1991, and 1996. After Amata Kabua's death in office, his first cousin, Imata Kabua, won a special election in 1997. The current president was elected in the general elections of November 1999 and took office in January 2000. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: First Cousin

Expressions using "first cousin": a first cousin once removed first cousin once removed. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: First Cousin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

first cousin marriage

21

first cousin once removed

13

first cousin

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: First Cousin

Language Translations for "first cousin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kushëri i parë (next of kin, second cousin). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

първи братовчед. (various references)

   

Czech

  

bratranec (cousin). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elsőfokú unokatestvér (cousin german, full cousin). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

misan. (various references)

   

Manx

  

'neen vraar mayrey, 'neen vraar ayrey, mac braar mayrey, mac braar ayrey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irstfay ousincay

   

Portuguese

  

primo (cousin). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vãr primar (cousin german). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

двоюродный брат (cousin, first-cousin). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

najbliži rod. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kusin (cousin). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

teyze çocuğu (cousin, cousin german), kuzen (cousin, cousin german), amca çocuğu (cousin german, paternal cousin). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cefnder. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: First Cousin

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consobrini, consobrino, consobrinus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: First Cousin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: frictions, fruitions, fusionist.

-3 letters: cistrons, fictions, friction, fruition, functors, incisors, incrusts, ironists, ructions, suctions.

-4 letters: cistron, citrins, citrons, citrous, confits, consist, cortins, cousins, fiction, fission, forints, frisson, functor, fusions, fustics, incisor, incross, incrust, ironist, nitrous, noritic, ossific, outsins, ricinus, ruction, rustics, soritic, suction, suitors, tocsins, tsouris, uncross.

-5 letters: cistus, citrin, citron, citrus, coitus, confit.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
 

+4 letters: anfractuosities, superinfections.

 

+5 letters: unsatisfactorily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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