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cousinages

cousinages is the plural of cousinage.

Meaning of cousinage

Noun

cousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)

  1. (obsolete) relationship; kinship
    • Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times

Questions about cousinages

What is cousinages the plural of?
Cousinages is the plural of cousinage.

Words near cousinages in the dictionary

  1. cousin-sister
  2. cousin-sisters
  3. cousin-uncle
  4. cousin-uncles
  5. cousinage
  6. cousinages
  7. cousinal
  8. cousincest
  9. Cousineau
  10. Cousineaus
  11. cousined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cousinages (page history and authors); cousinage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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