noun
- plural of cousin; children of one’s aunt or uncle
- people or things that are similar or related in some way
Usage: figurative
Examples
- My cousins are coming to visit us this weekend.
- She has twelve cousins on her mother’s side of the family.
- The cousins played together at the family reunion.
- First cousins share the same grandparents.
- Jazz and blues are musical cousins that developed together.
- These two languages are linguistic cousins with similar roots.
- All my cousins live in different states now.