As a noun cousin
is cousin.
As a letter s is
the letter s with a.
cousin
English
Noun
(
en noun)
The son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
- I think my cousin is a good man .
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.
(obsolete)
* Shakespeare
- 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 cousin
See also
* once removed
* twice removed
External links
* (wikipedia)
Anagrams
*
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s
Translingual
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(
wikipedia s)
Letter
The nineteenth letter of the .
Symbol
(
wikipedia)
(
mul-symbol)
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
See also
(
Latn-script)
*
* (esh)
* (dze)
*
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Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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