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cousinhood

cousinhood noun: relationship as of cousins.

Noun

cousinhood (countable and uncountable, plural cousinhoods)

  1. Relationship as of cousins.
    Synonyms:
    cousinship
  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 season1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    cousinship
  3. (uncountable) Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively.

Synonyms of cousinhood

Forms of cousinhood

pluralcousinhoods

Origin of cousinhood

From cousin + -hood.

Questions about cousinhood

What does cousinhood mean?
Cousinhood means relationship as of cousins.
What part of speech is cousinhood?
Cousinhood is a noun.
What is the plural of cousinhood?
The plural of cousinhood is cousinhoods.

Words near cousinhood in the dictionary

  1. cousinette
  2. cousinettes
  3. cousinfucker
  4. cousinfuckers
  5. cousinfucking
  6. cousinhood
  7. cousinhoods
  8. cousining
  9. cousinless
  10. cousinliness
  11. cousinly

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