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# cousin

«cousin» in Mova's school dictionary: **the child of your aunt or uncle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cousin, cousins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cousin is the child of your aunt or uncle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#m1)

2) A first cousin shares your grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a person in the story who gives, gets or shares things; sometimes a count of people; family trees; everyday life: visiting cousins, family parties; stories: cousins on holiday together

### examples

- Sam shares 20 candies with his 4 cousins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x1)
- Her cousin is 3 years older. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x2)
- Mia has 6 cousins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x3)
- His cousin gave him 5 stickers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x4)
- My cousins live in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x5)
- We played with our cousins at Grandma's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x6)
- My cousin and I were born in the same year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x7)
- Besides that, they were Fionn’s own cousins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/#x8)

### note

A person; the problem is about what moves between people. Trap: when sharing «with his 4 cousins», check if Sam also gets a share (then 5 people). Spelling: c-o-u-s-i-n, said «KUZ-in».

### In the corpora

- [Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/)
- [Vivid example: in Melbourne, cousin Jess moves into her first rented flat with a bag of old plates from Gran.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/3/)
- [It is a myth that people came from chimps: chimps and humans are cousins who both changed from a common ancestor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/7/)
- [Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/11/)
- [The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cousin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cousin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.