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Definition of First cousin
1. Noun. The child of your aunt or uncle.
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
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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