cousinhood
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cousinhood (countable and uncountable, plural cousinhoods)
- Relationship as of cousins.
- Synonym: cousinship
- The state or quality of being a cousin.
- Synonym: cousinship
- 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- 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
- (uncountable) Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively.
Translations[edit]
state of being cousins — see cousinship