different between stepbrother vs cousin

English

Alternative forms

• step-brother

Etymology

step- +? brother

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: step?broth?er

Noun

stepbrother (plural stepbrothers or (obsolete) stepbrethren)

1. The son of one's stepparent who is not the son of either of one's biological parents.
2. The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.

Synonyms

• stepbro

Hypernyms

• stepfamily
  • stepsibling
  • stepson

Related terms

• stepdaughter
• stepparent
• stepsister

Translations

Further reading

• Sibling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English cosyn, from Old French cosin, from Latin c?ns?br?nus, from com- + s?br?nus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?z.n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?z.?n/, /?k?z?n/
• (US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): [?k??z.??n]
• Rhymes: -?z?n
• Homophone: cozen (weak vowel merger)

Noun

cousin (plural cousins)

1. The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.

   Synonym: first cousin

2. Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
3. (obsolete) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
4. (figuratively) Something kindred or related to something else.
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     Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin "partnership", crops up all over the place, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker. It has been said that there is no noun which cannot be verbed; in the same way, there is now nothing, concrete or abstract, which cannot be partnered.
5. (espionage, slang, chiefly in the plural) A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective).

Usage notes

• People who have common grandparents but different parents are first cousins. People who have common great-grandparents but no common grandparents and different parents are second cousins, and so on.
• In general, one's nth cousin is anyone other than oneself, one's siblings or nearer cousins found by going back n+1 generations and then forward n+1 generations. One of one's first cousin's parents is one's parents' siblings. One of one's second cousin's grandparents is one of one's grandparents' siblings.
• The child of one's first cousin is one's first cousin once removed; the grandchild of one's first cousin is one's first cousin twice removed, and so on. For example, if Phil and Marie are first cousins, and Marie has a son Andre, then Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed.
• In the southern US, the relation is considered the number of links between two people of common ancestry to the common aunt or uncle.
• A patrilineal or paternal cousin is a father's niece or nephew, and a matrilineal or maternal cousin a mother's. Paternal and maternal parallel cousins are father's brother's child and mother's sister's child, respectively; paternal and maternal cross cousins are father's sister's child and mother's brother's child, respectively.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• once removed
• twice removed

Further reading

• cousin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• scioun

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.z??/

Etymology 1

From Middle French cousin, from Old French cosin, from Latin c?ns?br?nus.

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousine)

1. cousin (male)

Etymology 2

From Latin culic?nus (“mosquito-like”), from culex (“gnat, midge”).

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins)

1. crane fly

Synonyms

• maringouin

Derived terms

• cousinière (“protective mesh against crane flies”)

Further reading

• “cousin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cosin.

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine singular cousine, feminine plural cousines)

1. male cousin

Descendants

• French: cousin

Norman

Alternative forms

• couôsîn (Standard Jèrriais)
• couôthîn (Saint Ouen)

Etymology

From Old French cosin, from Latin c?ns?br?nus.

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousaine)

1. (Guernsey) (male) cousin