first cousin

noun

anything or anyone closely related to or resembling another: The film producer tried not to make the movie a first cousin to his last hit.

Origin of first cousin

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby first cousin

first class, first classman, first come, first served, first commandment, first consonant shift, first cousin, first cranial nerve, first cuneiform bone, first dark, first day, first derivative

Example sentences from the Web for first cousin

Single-speech Hamilton was Brace's first-cousin and intimate friend.

The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller |Francis Head
A very ingenious method of determining the approximate number of first-cousin marriages was devised by Mr. George H. Darwin.

Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population |George B. Louis Arner
His first-cousin, mechanically, was what we called the wind-up-the-watch insect.

The Land of Footprints |Stewart Edward White
You have a brother-in-law and a first-cousin in Parliament, and your father was an admiral.

The Eustace Diamonds |Anthony Trollope

I'm interested in the case, of course, as his wife is my first-cousin.

The Last Chronicle of Barset |Anthony Trollope

Idioms and Phrases with first cousin

first cousin

A close relation or resemblance to someone or something, as in This new machine is a first cousin to the previous model. The figurative use of cousin, which literally means “the child of one's aunt or uncle,” dates from the 1300s.

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first cousin

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Origin of first cousin

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Example sentences from the Web for first cousin

Idioms and Phrases with first cousin

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

first cousin

noun

Origin of first cousin

Words nearby first cousin

Example sentences from the Web for first cousin

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Idioms and Phrases with first cousin