Kin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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.
Idioms
  1. of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.
  1. a diminutive suffix of nouns: lambkin.
noun
  1. a person's relatives collectively; kindred
  2. a class or group with similar characteristics
  3. See next of kin
adjective
  1. related by blood
  2. a less common word for akin
suffix forming nouns
  1. small
Kin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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