Dictionary entry
Cousin
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌz(ə)n/
Pronunciation
/ˈkʌz(ə)n/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) ဝမ်းကွဲ ညီအစ်ကို မောင်နှမ။
Definition
cousin /'kʌzn/ n ၁။ (က) (also first cousin ) တစ္ဝမ္းကြဲ (ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမ)။ ဝမ္းကြဲ။ She is my cousin. ❍ We are cousins (ie children of each other's aunts/ uncles). (ခ) သားခ်င္းနီးစပ္။ ေဆြနီးမ်ဳိးစပ္။ She's a distant cousin of mine, I believe. See also SECOND COUSIN ၂။ (usu pl ) (တစ္တိုင္းတစ္ျပည္မွ) ညီေတာ္ေနာင္ေတာ္။ အၾကည္ေတာ္။ our American cousins.
Examples
- Harry and I are cousins.
- The Duke of Kent is a cousin of the Queen.
- She is a distant cousin (=not a close relation) of the famous author.
- Many politicians want to foster closer links with our European cousins.
- These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.