(n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
(n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
(n.) Allied; akin.
Example Sentences:
(1) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(2) They are related as fourth cousins once-removed and fifth cousins in multiple ways through the six nearest common ancestors of all four parents.
(3) In Australia there are taxpayer subsidies to keep these plants open, whereas in the US, China and parts of Europe, the government is taking actual direct action to close them down,” Cousins said.
(4) The attacker, who was named locally as Jaylen Fryberg, killed one girl on Friday and seriously wounded four people – including two of his cousins – before he died of what police said was a self-inflicted wound.
(5) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(6) Taking advantage of the availability of an archive of consanguineous marriages that gives accurate estimates of consanguinity in Italy, it has been possible to calculate the increase of first- and second-cousin marriages among 624 couples of cystic fibrosis (CF) parents over the general population.
(7) The news that ITV1 plans to continue Midsomer Murders despite the retirement of John Nettles – through a cousin of the central detective, introduced last night – is not surprising.
(8) Parents are first cousins once removed; the father has apparent hypertelorism.
(9) We are by far the most successful of the great apes and have pushed our cousins right up against the wall.
(10) There is a high frequency of unions among second cousins.
(11) Ariel Żurawski, the owner of the eponymous trucking company and the victim’s cousin, who identified Urban in a photograph, said it was clear that Urban engaged in a struggle with his killer.
(12) Close to the house of my cousin Miriam was the house of Lazarus.
(13) Some of her appeal – or so her husband's campaign team must hope – largely lies in her journey from the granddaughter of a coalminer and the second cousin of a Welsh rugby star to, potentially, the powerhouse of western democracy.
(14) Galloway accused Shah of lying about how old she was when she claimed to have been “emotionally blackmailed” into marrying a cousin in Pakistan.
(15) He told his court hearing in Rostov-on-Don: “I don’t know what your beliefs can possibly be worth if you are not ready to suffer or die for them.” Sentsov’s cousin, Natalia Kaplan, received the smuggled letter last month.
(16) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
(17) Karl Habsburg-Lothringen supported his cousin's action: "The Habsburg law is absurd, there's nothing else to be said about it.
(18) Two of the infants were brothers and the third was a first cousin.
(19) A few people might have wasted time trying to define Conchita's identity or worrying if she is one of "us", but the majority saw her for what she is: an ambassador for diversity, and a beacon of light – no doubt – to our queer cousins on the continent.
(20) is exactly the kind of ridiculous army recruitment advert of a chant that you would expect from our cousins across the Atlantic.
Grandniece
Definition:
(n.) The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are grandnieces of a normal member of a sibship which included four children with severe retardation and complete thyroid iodide organification defect.
(2) Abigail Disney, grandniece of Walt, has backed up Meryl Streep following the actor's recent comments about Walt Disney where she referred to him as a "gender bigot" and a member of an antisemitic lobbying organisation.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Painter and sculptor Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, grandniece of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum, Palm Beach, 1964.