COUSIN


Meaning of COUSIN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

country cousin

first cousin

kissing cousin

long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

close

The Citizen's Charter Unit is a close cousin of Labour's proposed ministry for women.

The current generation of anti-depressants, developed in the 1980s, includes Prozac and its close chemical cousins Zoloft and Paxil.

There is rage, self-defeat and its close psychic cousin , compulsive overachievement.

At Hillier's, however, there were two close cousins that would look splendid in any garden.

Christopher started off with prawns cooked in coriander, ginger and garlic, accompanied by a close cousin of the Hellmans family.

distant

A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.

Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.

Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin .

He married a distant cousin , Jocasta.

To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.

They were, in fat, distant cousins , something they never found out.

The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish.

old

I can't stand and gossip with Dadda's old cousin and make a fruit cake from Mammy's recipe.

Authorities believe the gun discharged after Ellis' 7-year-#old cousin tried to take it away.

At the front of my grandmother's house one of my older cousins ran a shop.

Guks, my fourteen-year-#old cousin , had been to Berlin recently.

young

Soon, three or four of the younger cousins were engaged in the conversation, listening with open-eyed wonder to their stories.

Last week it was a young cousin of mine and his bride.

■ NOUN

country

But Davao is a country cousin .

Compared to the slick colored maps of seismic tomography, these cartoons seem like country cousins .

■ VERB

live

Since then, Chee also has discovered that a Navajo cousin lives nearby in Maine.

The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.

She played with her Challiss cousins , who lived next door.

Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin , who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.

I happened to be in Berthing again - cousin of mine lives there.

At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.

Got a cousin living just outside Yelton.

marry

He married a distant cousin , Jocasta.

She married a cousin and went off to Norfolk and had ten children and ran a large household.

Should she violate Catholic law by marrying a cousin ?

At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.

In 1955 he married her cousin , Mary Katherine, daughter of Ralph Wedmore, a businessman.

In 1827 he married his cousin Mary, daughter of Robert Harrild, manufacturer of printing machinery.

In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wood.

meet

It was a hot, sunny day in summer when Cathy and I rode out to meet her cousin .

We met cousins whom we had not seen and made friends easily with other children also on their way to the coast.

I've promised to meet my cousin at that Inn on the Point at half past one.

Percy, meet my cousin , Meg Patrick.

remove

I even had some distant relatives living here, of the sort that are called cousins , seven times removed .

visit

We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own.

But before they really settled in, Amelia, alone, went to visit her cousins , the Challisses, in Atchison.

Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin , who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.

You come visit me, cousin .

One day Mum took Katy and Jamie to visit their big cousin Jane.

I recently visited my cousin , and Joe and Steven kept making fun of me.

Sue is visiting her cousin . 2.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cousin once/twice etc removed

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Apes may be distant cousins of humans.

The plantain is a large cousin of the banana.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals.

Mary Donovan is a cousin of my father's!

She was employed by cousin Gruner, the doctor, who had this work invented for her.

The cousins were very polite and in fact charming.

This was obviously not Silvia, Guido's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love!

When I was little my cousin used to come over to my house.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.