noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
country cousin
first cousin
kissing cousin
long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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The Citizen's Charter Unit is a close cousin of Labour's proposed ministry for women.
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The current generation of anti-depressants, developed in the 1980s, includes Prozac and its close chemical cousins Zoloft and Paxil.
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There is rage, self-defeat and its close psychic cousin , compulsive overachievement.
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At Hillier's, however, there were two close cousins that would look splendid in any garden.
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Christopher started off with prawns cooked in coriander, ginger and garlic, accompanied by a close cousin of the Hellmans family.
distant
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A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.
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Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.
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Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin .
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He married a distant cousin , Jocasta.
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To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.
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They were, in fat, distant cousins , something they never found out.
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The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish.
old
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I can't stand and gossip with Dadda's old cousin and make a fruit cake from Mammy's recipe.
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Authorities believe the gun discharged after Ellis' 7-year-#old cousin tried to take it away.
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At the front of my grandmother's house one of my older cousins ran a shop.
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Guks, my fourteen-year-#old cousin , had been to Berlin recently.
young
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Soon, three or four of the younger cousins were engaged in the conversation, listening with open-eyed wonder to their stories.
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Last week it was a young cousin of mine and his bride.
■ NOUN
country
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But Davao is a country cousin .
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Compared to the slick colored maps of seismic tomography, these cartoons seem like country cousins .
■ VERB
live
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Since then, Chee also has discovered that a Navajo cousin lives nearby in Maine.
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The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.
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She played with her Challiss cousins , who lived next door.
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Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin , who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.
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I happened to be in Berthing again - cousin of mine lives there.
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At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.
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Got a cousin living just outside Yelton.
marry
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He married a distant cousin , Jocasta.
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She married a cousin and went off to Norfolk and had ten children and ran a large household.
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Should she violate Catholic law by marrying a cousin ?
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At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.
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In 1955 he married her cousin , Mary Katherine, daughter of Ralph Wedmore, a businessman.
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In 1827 he married his cousin Mary, daughter of Robert Harrild, manufacturer of printing machinery.
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In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wood.
meet
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It was a hot, sunny day in summer when Cathy and I rode out to meet her cousin .
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We met cousins whom we had not seen and made friends easily with other children also on their way to the coast.
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I've promised to meet my cousin at that Inn on the Point at half past one.
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Percy, meet my cousin , Meg Patrick.
remove
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I even had some distant relatives living here, of the sort that are called cousins , seven times removed .
visit
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We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own.
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But before they really settled in, Amelia, alone, went to visit her cousins , the Challisses, in Atchison.
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Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin , who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.
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You come visit me, cousin .
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One day Mum took Katy and Jamie to visit their big cousin Jane.
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I recently visited my cousin , and Joe and Steven kept making fun of me.
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Sue is visiting her cousin . 2.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cousin once/twice etc removed
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Apes may be distant cousins of humans.
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The plantain is a large cousin of the banana.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals.
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Mary Donovan is a cousin of my father's!
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She was employed by cousin Gruner, the doctor, who had this work invented for her.
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The cousins were very polite and in fact charming.
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This was obviously not Silvia, Guido's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love!
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When I was little my cousin used to come over to my house.