kinship group
- noun
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grupo de parentesco
- Human beings live not as isolated individuals, but in families, kinship groups, clans, and various forms of political association.
- an extended kinship group
- kinship group members
Examples
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Historically, love played almost no role in marriage; matches were arranged between kinship groups.
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Members of the Manning kinship group maintained communication among themselves even after they dispersed from central Georgia.
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As such, Simon is an excellent example of the breadth and diversity of antebellum kinship groups.
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Patenting new government lands was especially attractive to burgeoning kinship groups that lacked the acreage to provide for numerous offspring.
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The villagers often gathered for celebrations that included entire kinship groups related by blood and marriage.
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In many cultures, the kinship group plays a vital role in social and economic support.
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Each kinship group in the community has its own traditions and practices that strengthen family bonds.
Synonyms
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All the people who are related to you by birth, marriage, or adoption
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A group of families who are related and share the same identity
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People who are related by blood or marriage
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Relatives who come from the same family, often including aunts and cousins
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A group of people who are related by blood or marriage
A group of people who are related by blood or marriage
People who are related to you by blood, like aunts and cousins
People in your family by blood or marriage
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Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'kinship' denotes family relations and 'group' denotes a set of people, so their combination straightforwardly yields 'a set of related people.' This construction follows regular English noun-noun compounding and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun kinship group comes from kin, an old word for family, and group, meaning people who belong together. Imagine relatives joined like a small team who share duties and help each other, so it means 'a group of people who are related by blood or marriage'.