kinfolk

Examples

• All

• He introduced me to his kinfolk, who gathered for a cookout every summer.

• When she moved to the city, she found it comforting to be close to her kinfolk who lived nearby.

• These must be his kinfolk.

  Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)

• And these are my kinfolk.

  Mame (1974)

• No shame in honest kinfolk, rich or poor.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Any marriage ceremony without the consent and assistance of kinfolk is impossible.

  Academic text (2001)

• Whoever you are, you're fit to be kinfolk of mine.

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

• You should've come to your kinfolk.

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

• "You got some kinfolks living out of town?" Coralee closed her eyes to think.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Your kinfolk fought most gallantly, young Pling.

  The Secret Kingdom (2023)

Synonyms

F

family

vskinfolk

∞ 1.0

All the people who are related to you by birth, marriage, or adoption

restricts sense to those descended from a common ancestor, not adoption

R

relative

vskinfolk

645 1.0

A person who is in your family by blood or marriage

uses a collective sense for extended descent rather than single individuals

K

kin

vskinfolk

132 2.6

People who are related by blood or marriage

stresses descent from a shared ancestor rather than including marriage

K

kindred

vskinfolk

2 6.6

A group of people who are related by blood or marriage

narrows to those descended from the same ancestor especially extended ones

K

kinsfolk

vskinfolk

• Archaic

8.1

People who are related to you by blood, like aunts and cousins

is the phrase stressing descent from a common ancestor

K

kinspeople

vskinfolk

6.2

People in your family by blood or marriage

focuses more on direct descent from a common ancestor

Antonyms

S

stranger

∞ 1.0

A person you do not know

O

outsider

283 4.1

A person who is not accepted by a group or community

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology