Kin
[kɪn]
Definition
(noun.) group of people related by blood or marriage.
(noun.) a person having kinship with another or others; 'he's kin'; 'he's family'.
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Definition
(-) A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
(n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
(n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
(n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
(a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Relationship (by blood or by marriage), consanguinity, affinity.[2]. Relation, relative, kindred, kinsfolk, connection.
a. Related, allied, kindred, akin, congenial, cognate, of the same nature, of the same kind, of the same family.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Race, kindred, offspring, kind, family, sort, ilk, genus, kidney, class,relationship, consanguinity, kinsfolk, blood
ANT:Foreignership, strangership, disconnection, inaffinity, irrelation
Typist: Susan
Definition
n. persons of the same family: relatives: relationship: affinity.—adj. related.—adj. Kin′less without relations.—Next of kin the relatives (lineal or collateral) of a deceased person among whom his personal property is distributed if he dies intestate; Of kin of the same kin.
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Examples
- I kin swim, gentlemen, said Gurt stoutly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The empire of Kin had the resources of half China behind it, and in the struggle the Mongols learnt very much of the military science of the Chinese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Sung empire shrank before this Kin empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If we kin git a boat, I'm ready to start this minit. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Of close kin to the elevator are the _fire escape_, _dumb waiter_ and _grain elevator_, each of which fills a more or less important function in the life of to-day. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Their military education began with a successful insurrection against the Kin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fust I'll tie the rope t' th' mast an' then t' th' beach, an' you two kin skip along like monkeys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The Mongols were in the twelfth century a tribe subject to those Kin who had conquered Northeast China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am disdained by his kith and kin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The war against the vestiges of the Kin empire was prosecuted until Kin was altogether subdued (1234). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was annexed, and only the southern part of the Kin empire remained unsubdued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These partake of the breath of life, and in their immortality are of kin to the soul. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Never collect anything but advertisements relative to next of kin. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was next of kin, no doubt, and you were aware that the old fellow would make no will. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Columbus was beset by people looking for their wounded or dead kin, to take them home for medical treatment or burial. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Seth