second cousin

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   a child of a first cousin of one's parent

   Broaderrelative

Questions about second cousin

What does second cousin mean?

second cousin means "a child of a first cousin of one's parent".

Is second cousin a common word?

second cousin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.