Definition of "first cousin" []

• See cousin. (noun)

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• "She was first cousin to that Mrs Stantiloup between whom and the Doctor internecine war was always being waged; and she was also aunt to a boy at the school, who, however, was in no way related to Mrs Stantiloup, young Momson being the son of the parson's eldest brother."
• "The goddess Fortuna seemed to smile on Antony; Fadia and the children she had borne him died in a summer pestilence, leaving him free to marry another heiress, his first cousin Antonia Hybrida."
• "He had an orphaned first cousin called Mary Donnelly, and they brought her along as well, as companion to Thomasine."