cousinhood

English

Etymology

From cousin +‎ -hood.

Noun

cousinhood (countable and uncountable, plural cousinhoods)

1. Relationship as of cousins.

   Synonym: cousinship

2. 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

3. (uncountable) Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively.

Translations

state of being cousins — see cousinship