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kinswoman

kinswoman

1 7.8
A female relative
  • noun
  • /ˈkɪnzˌwʊmən/
translation icon : pariente
  • Well, girl, do you want to go visitin'... this grand kinswoman of ours?

Examples

  • 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?

  • We will always be glad to see you, kinswoman.

  • 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?

  • "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

kinsperson
vskinswoman
9.1

A person who is related to you by blood or marriage

is specifically female rather than any gender

Antonyms

9 7.0

A man who is a family member by birth

A person who is not part of the same family

How Close

mother
1.0
sister
1.0
kinswoman
1 7.8
aunt
604 1.0
cousin
1.0

Surface Forms

kinswoman singular
kinswomen plural

Morphology

kinswoman = kin + woman (transparent) = kin + woman

Clear compound of 'kin' and 'woman' meaning a female relative; the linking 's' is a morphological connector without semantic complication.

Etymology

Kinswoman combines kin, which means 'family', and woman, so it simply means a 'female' relative.