kinswoman
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7.8
- noun
- /ˈkɪnzˌwʊmən/
:
pariente
- Well, girl, do you want to go visitin'... this grand kinswoman of ours?
Examples
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She left her square table and looking glass, standing in her best chamber, to a "loving kinswoman."
Academic text (1996) -
She lived on the outskirts of the village and was not integrated into her kinswoman's compound.
Academic text (2002) -
Do you wish at once a kinswoman and a friend?
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We will always be glad to see you, kinswoman.
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As one example in 1998, some Pawnees attended the funeral of a kinswoman who died in southern Oklahoma in the old Choctaw country.
Academic text (2000) -
- Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman?
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"Salnys," Cluthine supplied in a loud whisper, eyes sparkling as her kinswoman tensed with fury.
Fiction book (1992) -
One woman in Bevary, Omby, an unmarried woman in her 50s, moved into the vahiny section of Bevary on the recommendation of a kinswoman who had married a man from Bevary.
Academic text (2002) -
Vincent Ferrer was born in Valencia, the fourth child of an Anglo-Scottish nobleman called William Ferrer, whose wife, Constantia Miguel, was a kinswoman of the Bishop of Valencia.
Blog text (14) -
Elizabeth reached out with open arms to embrace her kinswoman, Mary.
Synonyms
A person who is related to you by blood or marriage
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kinswoman combines kin, which means 'family', and woman, so it simply means a 'female' relative.