Definition of First cousin

1. Noun. The child of your aunt or uncle.

Exact synonyms: Cousin, Cousin-german, Full Cousin
Generic synonyms: Relation, Relative
Derivative terms: Cousinly

Definition of First cousin

1. Noun. A child of a parent's sibling. A nephew or niece of a parent. ¹

2. Noun. A person who shares common grandparents but not common parents. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of First Cousin

first battle of Ypres
first bite free
first blood
first blush
first cause
first chair
first choice
first choices
first city
first come, first served
first come first served
first conditional
first contact
first cousin (current term)
first cousin once removed
first cousin twice removed
first cousins
first cousins once removed
first cousins twice removed
first cranial nerve
first cuneiform bone
first day cover
first declension
first degree
first degree A-V block
first degree burn
first dentition
first derivative

Literary usage of First cousin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sacred Books of China by James Legge (1885)
"It is worn :— ' By a man, for his great-grand-uncle; great-grand- uncle's wife; spinster great-grand-aunt; married grand- aunt ; grandfather's first cousin ..."

2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He was, on his mother's side, a first cousin to Benjamin West, the great painter, whose remains are buried in Westminster Abbey, England. ..."

3. Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland ; Notes Illustrative of the Most by George Adolphus Hanson (1876)
"In the year 1748 the following interesting and suggestive correspondence took place between Dr. Charles Carroll and his first cousin, Sir Daniel O'Carroll, ..."

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