Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A child of one's aunt or uncle; a first cousin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A first cousin. See Note under
cousin , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
first cousin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the child of your aunt or uncle
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Examples
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The countess Mathilda, grand duchess, his cousin-german, more powerful than himself in Italy, was his mortal enemy.
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Philip Mordaunt, cousin-german to the celebrated earl of
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His wife was a cousin-german of Anne Boleyn and a sister of Catherine
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The aunt of the Countess Ida, who presided over her house during her minority, had foolishly allowed her to contract an attachment for her cousin-german, a penniless sub-lieutenant in one of the
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He was a cousin-german of Henry VIII., and he was allied to two of
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He has left all his landed estate, which is eight and twenty thousand pounds a-year, including the Bradford estate, which his brother had from that ancient family, to a cousin-german.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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James I., his cousin-german, gave the title of Bothwell, as my comrades give me the nickname.
Old Mortality 2004
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It was also said that she was some relation to the Marquis, but only a distant one a cousin, or cousin-german, or something of the sort.
The Gambler 2003
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To this angry message Theseus returned a very gentle answer, excusing himself that he could not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Scipio Africanus, his cousin-german, and was by him named
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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