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{
"term": "cousin",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a child of your aunt or uncle",
"sensetop": "cousin to somebody",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's my cousin."
},
{
"text": "We're cousins."
},
{
"text": "This is my cousin Richard."
},
{
"text": "He's a **cousin once removed** *(= separated by one generation of our family)*."
},
{
"text": "She's a cousin of the bride."
},
{
"text": "He claims to be a cousin to the King.",
"contextForm": "cousin to somebody"
},
{
"text": "Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York."
},
{
"text": "I have a new baby cousin."
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["first", "second", "distant"],
"phrases": ["cousin once, twice, etc. removed"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you",
"sensetop": "cousin of somebody/sb's",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's some sort of cousin, I think."
},
{
"text": "He's a **distant cousin** of mine.",
"contextForm": "cousin of somebody/sb's"
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["first", "second", "distant"],
"phrases": ["cousin once, twice, etc. removed"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country",
"examples": [
{
"text": "our American cousins"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins."
},
{
"text": "These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkʌzn/",
"audio": "co/cousin/cousin__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkʌzn/",
"audio": "co/cousin/cousin__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’)."
}