Word Finder - cousins

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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).

The two little cousins, born the same year, were destined to be lifelong rivals.

I GPS tagged my cousins' cell phones and wallets.

Her thoughts went to her cousins.

Your cousins attend the Day School two blocks down.

And we are only second cousins, you know.

I figured as long as my cousins were there, I'd figure out what to do when Jonny came for me.

She could not marry Philip II., but she held out hopes to more than one of his Austrian cousins whenever France or Mary Stuart seemed to threaten; and later she encouraged two French princes when Philip had lost patience with Elizabeth and made Mary Stuart his protegee.

Like her cousins, who took everything so seriously, something about Xander provoked her inner bully.

Jessi said nothing to the cousins and only took the note after the goon at her door hurt her arm.

Sometimes I would go with Mildred and my little cousins to gather persimmons.

With loving greeting to the little cousins, and Mrs. Hale and a sweet kiss for yourself, From your little friend, HELEN A. KELLER.

Often, when the weather is fine, we drive from four to six, or go to see her aunt at Ivy Green or her cousins in the town.

But these orders and reports were only on paper, nothing in them was acted upon for they could not be carried out, and though they entitled one another Majesties, Highnesses, or Cousins, they all felt that they were miserable wretches who had done much evil for which they had now to pay.

They also do not send out as many runners as their June bearing cousins.

That made all their children her aunts and uncles, and their grandchildren her cousins.

Most of the guests were Evelyn's friends and family; Romas's small party consisted of only a handful of men-- cousins, according to Evelyn-- looking like an NFL team dressed uncomfortably in their tuxes.

Evelyn's many history lessons had covered the strange kin of Romas's, explaining they weren't the cousins Romas claimed them to be at the wedding.

Them Boston ladies would have said if they knew any cousins.

When she entered again, the elder of the two cousins was putting stuff in the fridge.

The one night she'd been too tired to check on her cousins before bed … "Where's my phone, Brandon?"

I want you to think about what I can do to your cousins, if I felt like it.

Whatever was going on, she'd never let anyone hurt her cousins.

She felt the need to say something though, knowing how much pain her cousins went through when they lost their parents.

Your cousins' lives are at stake.

Resistance was becoming harder, but she wasn't going to put him in danger anymore than she would her cousins.

She's in Texas, with your cousins.

Jessi appeared ready to refuse, until her cousins were mentioned.

Jessi broke away from her excited cousins for a breather.

Like the vamp-cat, Jessi's cousins had gone from panicked at being kidnapped in the middle of the night to content on the compound.

She was debating whether there was a polite way to tell him she was done with his game and how likely he was to stalk her and the cousins, until he got what he wanted.

They'd have to hide forever and hope he never had the chance to snatch her cousins.

Did the cousins tell you they were tested?

And my cousins, and now –" "I can toss you back in bed and wear you out until you calm down," he interrupted.

She studied him apprehensively, reminded of her cousins, when they were caught up in some sort of drama.

It is further conjectured that she was a sister of Mary the mother of Jesus, in which case James and John would be cousins of Jesus.

At suitable localities of the coast which are sheltered from the waves and overgrown with seaweed, especially in rock-pools, one or two males establish themselves with their harems, and may be observed without difficulty, being quite as fearless as their freshwater cousins.

He was the son of the emperor Charles V., and of his wife Isabella of Portugal, who were first cousins.

When the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Gabriel Monod, with his cousins, Alfred and Sarah Monod, organized an ambulance with which he followed the whole campaign, from Sedan to Mans.

They were Scots, first cousins, the grandchildren of a certain John Ruskin of Edinburgh (1732-1780).

When this marriage of the two cousins, who had known each other all their lives, took place in 1818, neither of them was young.

Jessie, a sister of John James, married Peter Richardson, a tanner, of Perth, so that the author had cousins of two Richardson families, unconnected with each other.

If Spain could gain this Alpine valley her territories would touch those of Austria, so that the Habsburgs north of the Alps could send troops to the aid of their Spanish cousins against Venice, and Spain in turn could help to subdue the Protestant princes of Germany in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).

A marriage of first cousins or a bigamous marriage may be declared void.

The knights of the Annunziata have the title of "cousins of the king," and enjoy precedence over all the other officials of the state.

Mary who had already married her kinsman in secret at Stirling Castle with Catholic rites celebrated in the apartment of David Rizzio, her secretary for correspondence with France, assured the English ambassador, in reply to the protest of his mistress, that the marriage would not take place for three months, when a dispensation from the pope would allow the cousins to be publicly united without offence to the Church.

The marriage of his parents, who were second cousins, was dissolved as unlawful by the pope, but the legitimacy of the children was recognized.

A four-year-old and his little sister were visiting their very tall teenage boy cousins.

I have read that the English and Americans are cousins; but I am sure it would be much truer to say that we are brothers and sisters.

Wild strawberries are smaller than their cultivated cousins.

These juniors clothing stores sell the same general selection of products featured in the catalog and online shopping portal, although for sheer variety of colors, designs and sizes, they can never beat their mail-order cousins.