noncousin

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noun

One who is not a cousin.

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Meanings

nounnoncousin (plural noncousins)

plural noncousins

  1. One who is not a cousin.
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    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, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds[…]

    2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in New York Times

Origin

From non- + cousin.

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Cite this entry
APA

noncousin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncousin

MLA

“noncousin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncousin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncousin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncousin.

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