cousin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cous·in /ˈkʌzən/ ●●● S2 noun [countable] 1. SSFthe child of your uncle or aunt 堂[表]兄弟；堂[表]姐妹 → first cousin, kissing cousin, second cousin2 LIKE/SIMILARsomething that has the same origins as something else 同源物，同类物cousin of/to a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetamines 和安非他明属于同类化学物的一种药物close/distant cousin The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear. 阿拉斯加棕熊是这种灰熊的近亲。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. 他那种有点接近爵士乐的前卫派音乐，喜欢的人有限。
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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 nounChineseSyllable
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cousin
cous‧in S2 /ˈkʌzən/
noun [countable]
2. something that has the same origins as something else
cousin of/to
a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetamines
close/distant cousin
The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.
3. someone or something that is similar to someone or something else:
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
cous‧in S2 /ˈkʌzən/
noun [countable] Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: cosin, from Latin consobrinus, from com- ( ⇨ COM-) + sobrinus 'cousin on the mother's side' (from soror 'sister')
1. the child of your uncle or aunt ⇨ first cousin, kissing cousin, SECOND COUSINLanguage: Old French
Origin: cosin, from Latin consobrinus, from com- ( ⇨ COM-) + sobrinus 'cousin on the mother's side' (from soror 'sister')
2. something that has the same origins as something else
cousin of/to
close/distant cousin
3. someone or something that is similar to someone or something else: