affine
- noun
- /əˈfaɪn/
- Specialized
:
afín
- He often consulted with his affines about important decisions, valuing their opinions and advice.
- kin and affines
- Close affines
- various affines
Examples
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A man, however, cannot establish autonomous claims to his affine's land.
Academic text (1991) -
In many cultures, affines play a vital role in family gatherings, often sharing gifts and support.
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A maternal uncle, an affine likely to be objective, served as a witness.
Academic text (1998) -
Leadership is limited in scale where marriage does not involve large payments, and affines are not big exchange partners.
Academic text (1990) -
Household members are usually close consanguines and affines sharing certain rights and obligations based on age and gender.
Academic text (1994) -
Birthday gifts from affines include zong zi, clothing, shoes, and socks.
Academic text (1998) -
Close affines constitute the remaining 17.2 percent of close kin marriages.
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In Dongyang, marriages with existing affines were phrased in terms of "adding new affinal relations onto old ones."
Academic text (1998) -
The kinship distances among cognatically related kin and affines were dramatically increased as the degree of reciprocal dependence decreased.
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During the family reunion, we welcomed our affines, who brought along their children to meet everyone.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A change that moves, turns, resizes, or flips a shape while keeping its straight lines
- Specialized
A type of geometry about shapes that stay the same when they are moved, stretched, or slanted
- Specialized
A houseplant that lives for many years with fragrant blue or lavender flowers
- Specialized
A perennial herb from California with small white flower clusters
Surface Forms
Etymology
An affine (noun) comes from Latin affinis meaning 'near' or 'related', the same root as affinity, so it helps to picture someone who is made 'near' to your family by marriage. That is why an affine is a person related by marriage rather than by blood.