cousinhood

noun

Etymology

From cousin + -hood.

  1. derived from *swésōr✻ — “sister”
  2. derived from *swezrīnos✻ — “of or belonging to a sister”
  3. derived from *cōsuīnus✻
  4. derived from cōnsobrīnus — “maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”
  5. derived from cosine — “collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”
  6. derived from cosine
  7. derived from cosine
  8. derived from cosin — “collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”
  9. derived from cosin
  10. derived from cosen
  11. inherited from cosin
  12. suffixed as cousinhood — “cousin + hood”

Definitions

  1. Relationship as of cousins.

  2. The state or quality of being a cousin.

    • Being without a family, I am flattered with these temporary adoptions into a friend's family; I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season
  3. Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cousinhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA