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kin

1

[ kin ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
  2. family relationship or kinship.
  3. a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.
  4. a relative or kinsman.
  5. someone or something of the same or similar kind:

    philosophy and its kin, theology.



adjective

  1. of the same family; related; akin.
  2. of the same kind or nature; having affinity.

-kin

2
  1. a diminutive suffix of nouns:

    lambkin.

-kin

1

suffix forming nouns

  1. small

    lambkin

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kin

2

/ kɪn /

noun

  1. a person's relatives collectively; kindred
  2. a class or group with similar characteristics
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adjective

  1. postpositive related by blood
  2. a less common word for akin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kin1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English cyn; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German kunni, Old Norse kyn, Gothic kuni; akin to Latin genus, Greek génos, Sanskrit jánas; gender 1.

Origin of kin2

Middle English < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German -ken; cognate with German -chen
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kin1

from Middle Dutch, of West Germanic origin; compare German -chen

Origin of kin2

Old English cyn; related to Old Norse kyn family, Old High German kind child, Latin genus kind
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. of kin, of the same family; related; akin:

    Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.

More idioms and phrases containing kin

see kith and kin .
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Example Sentences

Earlier that day, officials say, Stone went on a bloody rampage killing six of his kin and wreaking havoc in three small towns.

Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.

Outstripping the ironieteken, the temherte slaq, and their kin by far is the most remarked and reviled irony mark to date.

Late Monday night the FBI released the identities of seven of the deceased whose next of kin had been notified.

I mean, temperamentally I was different, and in addition there were three years between me and my next older kin.

I don't want ter see ennybody put upon, nor noways sufferin', ef so be's I kin help; but thet ain't ennythin' stronary, ez I know.

Probably he was some kin to old Granny Harris, who had distant connections in the North, some one suggested.

He poked his head in at an open door, and called, amiably, "Kin anybody tell me where to find Mr. Castle?"

We kin git the papers to start a holler and have folks demandin' action of their representatives, and sich like.

You can't go enterin' my house and removin' things without my permission, I kin tell you.

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