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What is the difference between uncle and cousin?

uncle | cousin |

As nouns the difference between uncle and cousin

is that uncle is a brother or brother-in-law of someone’s parent while cousin is the son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin.

As an interjection uncle

is a cry used to indicate surrender.

uncle

English

(wikipedia uncle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brother or brother-in-law of someone’s parent.
  • :
  • *
  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
  • (lb) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.
  • (lb) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
  • A pawnbroker.
  • :(Thackeray)
  • A close male friend of the parents of a family.
  • an older male African-American person

    • Synonyms

    * (sense) (l), (l)

    Antonyms

    * (with regard to gender) aunt * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew * (African-American) boy * (India) aunty

    Hyponyms

    * paternal uncle * maternal uncle * (uncle gained by marriage) uncle-in-law

    Derived terms

    * agony uncle * Bob's your uncle * cry uncle * Dutch uncle * grand-uncle * great-uncle, great uncle * holler uncle * I'll be a monkey's uncle * nuncle * say uncle * Uncle Sam * Uncle Scrooge * Uncle Tom

    Related terms

    * avuncular

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry used to indicate surrender.

    • References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=uncle&searchmode=none] * " uncle" in Merriam-Webster 1000 English basic words ----

    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.

    Synonyms

    * (sense, nephew or niece of one's parent) first cousin

    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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