Cousin vs Family - What's the difference?
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The son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
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(lb) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family' perhaps at a critical moment, when the ' family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
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(lb) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
*1915', William T. Groves, ''A History and Genealogy of the Groves '''Family in America
(lb) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
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A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
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*:The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally.
(lb) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
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A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
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Conservative, traditional.
(slang) Homosexual.
As nouns the difference between cousin and family
is that cousin is cousin while family is (lb) a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.As an adjective family is
suitable for children and adults.cousin
English
Noun
(en noun)- I think my cousin is a good man .
- My noble lords and cousins , all, good morrow.
Usage notes
* People who have common grandparents but different parents are first cousins. People who have common great-grandparents but no common grandparents and different parents are second cousins, and so on. * In general, one’s nth cousin is anyone other than oneself, one's siblings or nearer cousins found by going back n+1 generations and then forward n+1 generations. One of my first'' cousin's ''parents'' is one of my ''parents' siblings''. One of my ''second'' cousin's ''grandparents'' is one of my ''grandparents' siblings . * The child of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin once removed; the grandchild of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin twice removed, and so on. For example, if Phil and Marie are first cousins, and Marie has a son Andre, then Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed. * In the southern US, the relation is considered the number of links between two people of common ancestry to the common aunt or uncle. * A patrilineal or paternal cousin is a father's niece or nephew, and a matrilineal or maternal cousin a mother's. Paternal and maternal parallel cousins are father's brother's child and mother's sister's child, respectively; paternal and maternal cross cousins are father's sister's child and mother's brother's child, respectively.Derived terms
* cousin brother * cousin german * cousin prime * cousin sister * cousin-aunt * cousin-brother * cousin-german * cousin-in-law * cousin-sister * cousin-uncle * cross-cousin * first cousin * kissing cousin * parallel cousin * second cousin * third cousinSee also
* once removed * twice removedExternal links
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
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English
Noun
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Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Usage notes
* In some dialects, (family) is used as a plurale tantum.Synonyms
* see also * see also nuclear family, immediate family, extended familyDerived terms
* family of curves (matematics)Adjective
(-)- It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
- Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
- I knew he was family when I first met him.