Word Finder - cousin

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The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.

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I think my cousin is a good man.

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• first cousin

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Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.

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A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.

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Something kindred or related to something else.

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(chiefly in the plural) A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective).

My cousin Frank lives in Louisville.

Cousin Arthur made me a swing in the ash tree.

My cousin tells me I've lost my way in the lessons of my forefathers.

I'd leave that up to his cousin Martha.

Can this one boon be as bad as my cousin believes?

The cousin had to be the illegitimate daughter of the old man.

My cousin is sensitive.

In 1839 he succeeded his master Cousin as professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne.

Cousin Bell will come to see us Saturday.

The summer you two came up here, I had a major crush on my handsome California cousin but you were seven years older than me and didn't know I existed.

Her cousin can Travel and has a knack for weapons she's hiding from Jessi.

Her cousin hurried back, her face falling when she realized Jonny was gone.

Jessi watched her cousin walk away then break into a run as she crossed the street and headed towards the bookstore.

Jessi almost begged her cousin not to leave her alone with Xander, whose direct gaze hadn't left her.

What if he tried to hurt her sweet cousin, like Jonny promised to do?

Brandon flushed, confirming the instinct that he wasn't as pure as his cousin thought.

Somehow, they made it to the hospital and managed to track down her cousin's room.

Jessi bit her tongue, not wanting to get into a pissing match with her cousin.

Cousin Anna gave me a pretty doll.

Jessi hugged her tight for a few seconds, kissing her cousin's forehead.

In 737 he voluntarily retired to a monastery and left the kingdom to his cousin Eadberht.

Cousin dedicated to him the fourth volume of his translation of Plato, and the long dedication is a compressed biography.

His chief philosophical importance consists in the fact that he was a leader in the attempt to revivify French philosophy by the new thought of Germany, to which he had been introduced by Cousin, but of which he never had more than a second-hand knowledge.

In 1740 Reid married a cousin, the daughter of a London physician.

You said Eduardo was your cousin.

Martha turned to her cousin.

The demon told me I'd gone mad when I saw what my cousin did.

I threw my cousin's body from the Cliffs into the ocean, and I told my mate a bandit killed our daughter.

Jessi, this is Laurie again, the nurse overseeing your cousin's care.

Jessi was crying by the time she reached her cousin.

Jessi covered her mouth, willing him not to say anything stupid to her delicate cousin.

I appreciate you helping me, Xander, and for being somewhat decent to my cousin.

Jessi wasn't going to stand on the sideline when it came to her cousin.

Posters of teen pop stars populated her cousin's wall.

Jonny blocked her from going to her cousin.

At the age of ten he composed a tragedy under the inspiration of Caesarotti's translation of the Ossianic poems. On the marriage of his twin sister Rosina with a maternal cousin at Lyons he went to reside in that city, devoting himself during four years to the study of French literature.

As king of Aragon he took a share in the work of the reconquest, by helping his cousin Alphonso VIII.

In 1268 he took the cross with his cousin Edward, who, however, sent him back from Sicily to pacify the unruly province of Gascony.

He was a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt.

At nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under Burnouf, Villemain, and Cousin.

After a delay of nine years, having at last obtained an adequate income, he married his cousin, Margaret Cox, who had already lived for eighteen years with his mother, the widow of John Ruskin of Edinburgh.

The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a Roman public. His popularity with the army declined, and Maesa, perceiving that the soldiers were in favour of Alexander Severus, persuaded Heliogabalus to raise his cousin to the dignity of Caesar (221), a step of which he soon repented.

Now you know, Count," she said to Pierre, "even our dear cousin Boris, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness..."

I ask just one thing of you, cousin," she went on, "arrange for me to be taken to Petersburg.

You can see it from the window, she said to her cousin, evidently wishing to distract her mind.

Not sure we can get a signal on the GPS tags Jessi put on her cousin.

Someone go get my cousin!

Her early years were clouded by the execution of the duc de Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1631, and that of her mother's cousin the comte de Montmorency-Boutteville for duelling in 1635; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hotel Rambouillet, at that time the centre of all that was learned, witty and gay in France.

Victor Cousin has devoted four volumes to her, which, though immensely diffuse, give a vivid picture of her time.

His first wife died in 1563, and in 1572 he married a cousin, Elizabeth Mowbray, by whom he had three sons, the eldest of whom was named Alexander.'