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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. 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.
2. (specifically) 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.
3. (specifically) 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.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
5. 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.
6. Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (British) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
7. (figurative, also, attributive) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
8. (cant) A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
9. (cant) A person who is swindled; a dupe.
10. (rare) A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.

Verbi

1. To address (someone) as "cousin".
2. (also, reflexive) To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
3. To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
4. To visit a cousin or other relation.