cousins

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of cousin

cousin

• Noun
• Verb

Ler máis

Sinónimos

boy-cousin

brothers

cousin

first cousin

relations

cousin-german

cous

Traducións

Vettern

Kusinen

cosina

parent llunyà

Basen

Cousin

Cousinen

Cousine

Cousins

entfernter Verwandter

entfernte Verwandte

Kusine

parenta llunyana

Vetter

cosí

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈkʌzn̩s/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs).
The plural noun sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).