cousin: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of cousin
noun
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.
- specifically
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. 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.
- specifically
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. 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.
Example: Although we were cousins, we grew up like sisters.
- in-plural
A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
Listed forms: cousins.
Source: Wiktionary — cousin.
verb
- US, informal, intransitive, regional
To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
- US, informal, intransitive, regional
To visit a cousin or other relation.
- rare, transitive
To address (someone) as "cousin".
- also, rare, reflexive, transitive
To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
Listed forms: cousins, cousining, cousined.
Source: Wiktionary — cousin.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cousin.
noun
the child of your aunt or uncle
- first cousin
- cousin-german
- full cousin
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cousin in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cousin
C(3) + O(1) + U(1) + S(1) + I(1) + N(1) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of cousin
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from cousin
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