{
    "term": "cousin",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a child of your aunt or uncle",
            "sensetop": "cousin to somebody",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's my cousin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're cousins."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is my cousin Richard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a **cousin once removed** *(= separated by one generation of our family)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a cousin of the bride."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He claims to be a cousin to the King.",
                    "contextForm": "cousin to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a new baby cousin."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["first", "second", "distant"],
                "phrases": ["cousin once, twice, etc. removed"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you",
            "sensetop": "cousin of somebody/sb's",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's some sort of cousin, I think."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a **distant cousin** of mine.",
                    "contextForm": "cousin of somebody/sb's"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["first", "second", "distant"],
                "phrases": ["cousin once, twice, etc. removed"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "our American cousins"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌzn/",
                "audio": "co/cousin/cousin__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌzn/",
                "audio": "co/cousin/cousin__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’)."
}