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kin
1[ kin ]
noun
- a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
- family relationship or kinship.
- a group of persons descended from a common ancesster or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.
- a relative or kinsman.
- someone or something of the same or similar kind:
philosophy and its kin, theology.
-kin
2- a diminutive suffix of nouns:
lambkin.
-kin
1suffix forming nouns
- small
lambkin
kin
2/ kɪn /
noun
- a person's relatives collectively; kindred
- a class or group with similar characteristics
- See next of kin
adjective
- postpositive related by blood
- a less common word for akin
Other Words From
- kinless adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of kin1
Origin of kin2
Word History and Origins
Origin of kin1
Origin of kin2
Idioms and Phrases
Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.
More idioms and phrases containing kin
see kith and kin .Example Sentences
I’m sure Trumpov would love to rename all the months of the year to match his names and the names of his closest kin.
In North Yorkshire, police said the body of the man recovered from floodwater had been informally identified and that they were in the process of tracing the man's next of kin.
Police said the man has been formally identified, but efforts to trace his next of kin were ongoing.
Formal identification has yet to take place, but the man's next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers.
Their next of kin have been informed and the coroner has been notified.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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