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Kin

Kin Meaning & Definition
Kin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Kin?

[n] group of people related by blood or marriage
[n] a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Kin: clan | family | kin group | kindred | kinship group | kinsperson | tribe

Related Terms | Find terms related to Kin: agnate | ancestry | blood | blood relation | blood relative | bracket | branch | brand | breed | cast | caste | category | character | clan | clansman | class | cognate | collateral | collateral relative | color | connections | consanguine | consanguinean | consanguineous | cousinhood | denomination | description | designation | distaff side | distant relation | division | enate | estate | family | feather | flesh | flesh and blood | folk | folks | form | genre | genus | german | grade | grain | group | grouping | head | heading | ilk | kidney | kind | kindred | kinfolk | kinnery | kinsfolk | kinsman | kinsmen | kinswoman | kith and kin | label | level | line | lineage | lot | make | manner | mark | mold | nature | near relation | next of kin | number | order | people | persuasion | phylum | pigeonhole | position | posterity | predicament | race | rank | rating | related | relation | relations | relatives | rubric | section | sept | set | shape | sib | sibling | sort | spear kin | spear side | species | spindle kin | spindle side | stamp | station | status | stock | strain | stratum | stripe | style | subdivision | subgroup | suborder | sword side | the like of | the likes of | title | tribe | tribesman | type | uterine kin | variety

See Also | clan member | clansman | clanswoman | family | family tree | family unit | folks | genealogy | relation | relation | relative | relative | social group | totem | Tribes of Israel | tribesman | Twelve Tribes of Israel

Kin In Webster's Dictionary

\kin\ [Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG. -- ken.] A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
\Kin\, n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. --Riemann.
\Kin\, n. [OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. ? to be born, Skr. jan to beget. ?. Cf. {Kind}, {King}, {Gender} kind, {Nation}.] 1. Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. 2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race. The father, mother, and the kinbeside. --Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. --Bacon.
\Kin\, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. ``Kin to the king.'' --Shak.
\Kin\, n. Also Kine \Kine\ [Gr. ? to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C.G.S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.

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