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BNC: 3010 COCA: 2714

cousin

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Related topics: Family
cous·in /ˈkʌzən/ ●●● S2 noun [countableC] → cozen
1. SSFthe child of your uncle or aunt 堂[表]兄弟；堂[表]姐妹 → first cousin, kissing cousin, second cousin
2  LIKE/SIMILARsomething that has the same origins as something else 同源物，同類物
cousin of/to
a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetamines
和安非他明屬於同類化學物的一種藥物
close/distant cousin
The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.
阿拉斯加棕熊是這種灰熊的近親。
3  someone or something that is similar to someone or something else 相似的人[物]
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
他那種有點接近爵士樂的前衛派音樂，喜歡的人有限。
Examples from the Corpus
cousin• Mary Donovan is a cousin of my father's!• He'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals.• She was employed by cousin Gruner, the doctor, who had this work invented for her.• Apes may be distant cousins of humans.• The plantain is a large cousin of the banana.• When I was little my cousin used to come over to my house.• This was obviously not Silvia, Guido's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love!• The cousins were very polite and in fact charming.
close/distant cousin• The Citizen's Charter Unit is a close cousin of Labour's proposed ministry for women.• He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.• Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin.• To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.• A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.• They were, in fat, distant cousins, something they never found out.• Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.
Origin cousin
(1200-1300) Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus, from com- ( → COM-) + sobrinus “cousin on the mother's side” (from soror “sister”)
cous·in noun
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BNC: 3010 COCA: 2714
cousin

noun

ADJECTIVE | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤first, second堂／表兄弟姐妹；遠房堂／表兄弟姐妹▸➤distant, remote (BrE) 遠房堂親／表親▸➤close, kissing (NAmE, both figurative) 近親；關係密切的事物◇These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.這些豬和野豬是近親。◇the popular idea that creativity and madness are kissing cousins認為創造力和瘋狂存在着密切關係的流行觀點➤baby, little嬰兒堂／表兄弟姐妹；小堂／表兄弟姐妹◇I have a new baby cousin.我有個新出生的小堂妹。➤female, male堂／表姐妹；堂／表兄弟▸➤long-lost失散已久的堂親／表親◇Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in Ohio.她收到失散很久的表親從俄亥俄寄來的一封信，這完全出乎意料。➤beloved, favourite/favorite喜愛的堂親／表親；最喜愛的堂親／表親PHRASES➤cousin once, twice, etc. removed隔了一代、兩代等的堂親／表親◇She's my first cousin once removed (= of a different generation).她是我堂兄的女兒。
BNC: 3010 COCA: 2714
BNC: 3010 COCA: 2714
cousin
Uncles and aunts and cousins: aunt, auntie, cousin...
Relationships and membership of social groups: relationship, connection, association...

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