second cousin

noun

: the child of one's parent's first cousin

Examples of second cousin in a Sentence

Susan is my second cousin.
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Yellin’s second cousin Gabriel Florenz, the organization’s founding artistic director, became executive director in March and is tasked with fundraising and donor development. News Desk, Artforum, 6 May 2025 Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997, and Lord Louis Mountbatten, the late Queen Elizabeth's second cousin, was killed in an Irish Republican Army terrorist bombing in Ireland in 1979. Brie Stimson, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025 Todd’s eldest was Connor Sturgeon, my paternal second cousin, a syndication banker at Old National in Louisville. Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 On Wednesday, the 64-year-old actor joined American social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt and King Charles III's second cousin, Sophie Winkleman, at London's Knightsbridge School for an event organized by the group Close Screens, Open Minds. Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for second cousin

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of second cousin was in 1660

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“Second cousin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20cousin. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

Kids Definition

second cousin

noun
: the child of one's parent's first cousin
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