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sisters and brothers are siblings.

sisters and brothers from different sibling parents are cousins.

what do you call after cousin? or in general, same level descendants, is there word for that?

M.kazem Akhgary
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    They are still cousins. – Chenmunka Jan 26 '18 at 13:03
  • oh, good to know. so cousin is general term? thanks for answer, I appreciate if you post it as answer so I can accept. btw English is not my mother language. – M.kazem Akhgary Jan 26 '18 at 13:04
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    Another (more precise) system is "third cousin four times removed" and so on. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin – GEdgar Jan 26 '18 at 13:05
  • Do you mean the children of your parents' cousins? They're second cousins. – KarlG Jan 26 '18 at 13:10
  • This is a common question here. To start, look at https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1605/is-there-an-accepted-rule-for-naming-all-of-our-various-distant-relatives-kinsh and https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51616/paucity-of-words-for-relationships/ – Mitch Jan 26 '18 at 13:26
  • @GEdgar The word "cousin" can be used specifically to mean a "first cousin", but it is often extended, without modification, to mean a more distant cousin - it depends on the context. At the extreme, British people will sometimes refer to an entire population as "our American/Australian cousins". Often this is in an ironical sense to highlight some predisposition which is different to our own e.g. "you can rely on our American cousins to have forgotten how to make a nice cup of tea, but they know more about coffee than we do". – WS2 Jan 26 '18 at 13:27
  • I think the extended use of "cousin" also includes other generations, not just the same generation. – GEdgar Jan 26 '18 at 13:34
  • @GEdgar A "third cousin four times removed" would be a pretty distant relative. – WS2 Jan 26 '18 at 15:17

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A child of a sibling of your parents is a first cousin.
A grandchild of a sibling of your grandparents is a second cousin.
And so on for cousins of the same generation as you.

For cousins of a different generation, you use removed. So if a cousin is one generation different - in either direction - they are once removed. Two generations - twice removed and so on.

The simple word cousin, used alone, covers all of these relatives.

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