first cousin
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- noun
- /fɜrst ˈkʌzən/
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primo hermano
- She is my first cousin, and we often share our childhood memories.
- married to a first cousin
- first cousin marriage
- first cousin once removed
He has a cousin, a first cousin with the same name, Abu Zubaida.
- He has a cousin, a first cousin with the same name, Abu Zubaida.
- Cadet is my cousin, my first cousin, my dad and his dad are brothers.
- Sexual relations between first cousins are illegal in Mississippi.
- Albert Einstein's second wife was his first cousin.
- Like I have a blue actually, like I don't have any first cousins.
- He doesn't know Tennessee could ban marriage between first cousins.
- After that all happened the word got around and somehow it turns out that she's my first cousin.
- And I, I point out this example of the Queen's first cousins who were officially diagnosed as imbeciles.
- So somebody might have first, for instance, in my family, first cousins are really much more similar to what other people have as brothers and sisters.
- My, my mum's first cousin, I called him uncle and he then said we need to take you to the government to, to tell your story.
- Our children's wasn't just for double first cousins.
Examples
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Our mothers were first cousins.
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My first cousin and I played together every summer as kids.
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I have 27 first cousins.
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You see, she's married to my first cousin.
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Clayton and I looked a little alike; you could tell we were first cousins.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm Maggie, Alex's first cousin.
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Many societies make important distinctions between first cousins and more distant relatives.
Academic text (2000) -
Emma Wedgwood was married to her first cousin, Charles Darwin.
Academic text (2010) -
They're first cousins.
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At the family reunion, I met my first cousin for the first time.
Synonyms
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A child of your aunt or uncle
A child of your aunt or uncle
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositional: 'cousin' names the kinship relation and 'first' functions as an ordinal/degree marker indicating the closest cousin (sharing grandparents). This degree-marking pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'first' and 'cousin' can reliably infer the intended relation.
Etymology
The noun first cousin means the cousin who is closest in your family. The word first shows they are the 'child' of your 'aunt' or 'uncle' and share your 'grandparents', so the phrase means 'the child of your aunt or uncle'.