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removed

removed

10 6.5
Separated by one or more generations in a family connection
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈmuːvd/
: remoto
  • My cousin is two generations removed from our shared grandfather.

Britney is your sixth cousin once removed?

Examples

  • But no, I, my, my, my second cousin once removed got married.

  • Everyone, everyone else, even maybe generations removed, but everyone else has an immigrant route to them.

  • Where you going to learn it from six to seven generations removed at this point?

  • So I, I am removed from the Macmillan's.

  • June and who was removed from PEN America's board?

  • When I'm normally not at the other place where I normally am, I'm twice removed from normal, otherwise known as Delaware.

  • But Joe Gallo's brother, Albert Kid Blast Gallo and a guy, Punchy Ileano, they were left removed from the Colombo family and placed in gin screw.

  • He discovered he was related to someone who was five cousins removed on his mother's side.

  • Their family tree shows that she is three generations removed from her distant ancestor.

How Distant

unrelated
4 3.5
removed
10 6.5
ancestor
339 2.4
relative
603 1.0

Surface Forms

removed positive

Morphology

removed = remove (semi-transparent) = re + move + ed

This is still the regular participial adjective from 'remove', but the kinship use is a specialized extension of the idea of distance.

Etymology

The family meaning of removed comes from the same parts re- 'back' and move 'to move', meaning a relation is 'moved' away by generations. So a 'first cousin once removed' is one generation 'moved' away from you.