kith
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9.9
- noun
- /kɪθ/
- Archaic
- We care more for our gardens and our pets than we do for our kith and kin.
- kith and kin
Examples
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All his kith and kin were dead.
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Why did no one think to mention that the Van Garretts are kith and kin to the Van Tassels?
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I do not wish to lie with my own kith and kin.
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Sometimes you have to fight for yourself, for kith and kin, for what is yours.
Blog text (28) -
The joy of returning to kith and kin was greater than all her former joys.
Fiction book (1995) -
May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, his kith and kin.
Blog text (17) -
They are our friends, they are our neighbours, they are our colleagues, they are our kith and kin.
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A child would most often be cared for through an informal arrangement with next of kin or kith, people with whom one has a family-like relationship but who are not related by blood.
Academic text (2008) -
President Kamuzu Banda has long viewed the peoples of neighboring territories as his country's kith and kin.
Academic text (1991) -
I should be at the table with all of my kith and kin.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kith comes from an old English word that meant 'known' or 'familiar', like the idea in the English word know, so it named the people you knew. That's why kith and kin means friends and acquaintances while kin means family.