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noncousin

noncousin noun: one who is not a cousin.

Noun

noncousin (plural noncousins)

  1. One who is not a cousin.
    • The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest...2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in New York Times

Forms of noncousin

pluralnoncousins

Origin of noncousin

From non- + cousin.

Questions about noncousin

What does noncousin mean?
Noncousin means one who is not a cousin.
What part of speech is noncousin?
Noncousin is a noun.
What is the plural of noncousin?
The plural of noncousin is noncousins.

Words near noncousin in the dictionary

  1. noncoupled
  2. noncouples
  3. noncoupon
  4. noncourageous
  5. noncourt
  6. noncousin
  7. noncousins
  8. noncovalent
  9. noncovalently
  10. noncovariant
  11. noncovenanter

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