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KIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Group of people related by blood or marriage
Synonyms:
clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kin" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "kin"):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
clan member; clansman; clanswoman (a member of a clan)
tribesman (someone who lives in a tribe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kin"):
mishpachah; mishpocha ((Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends))
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
folks (your parents)
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
totem (a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object)
Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel (twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob)
Derivation:
kin (related by blood)
kinship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person having kinship with another or others
Example:
he's family
Synonyms:
family; kin; kinsperson
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("kin" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kin"):
affine ((anthropology) kin by marriage)
Derivation:
kin (related by blood)
kinship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related by blood
Synonyms:
akin; blood-related; cognate; consanguine; consanguineal; consanguineous; kin
Classified under:
Similar:
related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
Derivation:
kin (group of people related by blood or marriage)
kin (a person having kinship with another or others)
Context examples:
But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Yet he was my brother—the only kith or kin that I had upon earth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my helper.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It may be that, as some small return, my father or his kin may have power to advance your interest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he answered me his face grew stern, and he said in quite a different tone:—Oh, it was the grim irony of it all—this so lovely lady garlanded with flowers, that looked so fair as life, till one by one we wondered if she were truly dead; she laid in that so fine marble house in that lonely churchyard, where rest so many of her kin, laid there with the mother who loved her, and whom she loved; and that sacred bell going 'Toll! toll! toll!' so sad and slow; and those holy men, with the white garments of the angel, pretending to read books, and yet all the time their eyes never on the page; and all of us with the bowed head.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
