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

  1. Harry and I are cousins.
  2. The Duke of Kent is a cousin of the Queen.
  3. She is a distant cousin (=not a close relation) of the famous author.
  4. Many politicians want to foster closer links with our European cousins.
  5. These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.