Kinship
['kɪnʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption.
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Family relationship.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- You can understand that our kinship makes it the more impossible for me to screen him in any way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She thought he seemed to acknowledge some kinship between her and him, a natural, tacit understanding, a using of the same language. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Stacey