name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English.
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name
A surname from Middle English.
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noun
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
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noun
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
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noun
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.
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noun
A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
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Usage: in-plural
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noun
Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
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noun
Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (UK) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
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noun
Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
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Usage: also, attributive, figuratively
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noun
A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
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Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: cant
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noun
A person who is swindled; a dupe.
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Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: cant
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Synonyms: chump, chumpion, cousin, cull, cully, dupe, dotterel, easy mark, fall guy, fish, gudgeon, gull, juggins, live one, mark, mug, muggins, pigeon, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sheep, simp, Simple Simon, soft touch, steamer, stiff, stooge, sucker
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noun
A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.
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Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
A fan of the character Lucien LaCroix from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
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Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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Broader terms: Forever Knightie, Knightie
verb
To address (someone) as "cousin".
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Usage: rare, transitive
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verb
To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
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Usage: also, rare, reflexive, transitive
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verb
To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
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Usage: US, informal, intransitive, regional
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verb
To visit a cousin or other relation.
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noun
the child of your aunt or uncle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin
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Broader terms: relative, relation
History
From Middle English Cosyn, a surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine). Literally, “familial relative”.
The noun is derived from Middle English cosin, cosine, cosyn (“blood relative, kinsman or kinswoman; any relative; nephew or niece; first cousin; grandson or granddaughter; descendant; godchild or godparent, or a relative of a godchild or godparent; (figurative) closely related or similar thing”) [and other forms], and then: * from Anglo-Norman cosen, cosin [and other forms], Middle French cosin, and Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousin); and * from Anglo-Norman cosine, Middle French cosine, and Old French cosine (“collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousine), from Latin cōnsobrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsobīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h1ésh2r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)). The verb is derived from the noun.
From cousin, in reference to an incident when a fan of the character Nick Knight, Sharon Scott, admitted that she had a fear of frogs and after two other members of the mailing list who were fans of Lucien LaCroix sent her chocolate frogs in the mail, replied that the two were so cruel that they must be cousins.
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