kin
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4.6
- adjective
- /kɪn/
:
consanguíneo
- I'm looking at my options for retirement with a very sober eye, and raising grandkids while tending the family garden looks vastly preferable to relying on the kindness of people who aren't kin.
Examples
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The historian showed that many cultures are kin, each tracing their roots back to common ancestors.
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For small, household-centered, life-cycle celebrations, the participants are kin.
Academic text (1994) -
After all, we're not kin.
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And his skin is flawlessly kin.
Fiction book (1996) -
And when the service was over, she stood outside the church and greeted those harsh and unblinking souls as if they were kin.
Fiction book (1996) -
That power lies in the hands of their mothers and their female relatives; they were not available, nor were they kin, since they had become Chaitin, while these two remained Tesati.
Fiction book (1999) -
We discovered that we are all kin with a shared ancestry that dates back centuries.
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During the family reunion, it was heartwarming to see how everyone felt like kin despite the years apart.
Synonyms
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1.8
Connected by blood or marriage
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5.1
Related to another person by blood, like a cousin or sibling
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4.1
Born into the same family, not connected by marriage or adoption
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9.9
People who share the same ancestor and are related by blood
Related by blood, like brothers or parents
People who have the same blood, like brothers or cousins
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slang
A person who feels very close to a fictional character and sees themselves in that character
How Related
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective kin comes from the same old English cynn meaning 'family', and it is related to the word kind in older English. So when someone is described as kin, they are of the same family or blood.