first cousin
Americannoun
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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.
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Etymology
Origin of first cousin
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
It wasn’t the first time that Huang had snubbed Su, who is also his first cousin, once removed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
He is a first cousin, three times removed, of Sir Winston Churchill and a distant relative of the late Princess Diana through the Spencer family.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
The following year, he married his first cousin, Patricia Llosa.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
Vincent and Theo’s first cousin Kee Vos comes with her eight-year-old son.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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