kin
kins
Some say kin, others say "family" or "relatives." Call them what you will, but you’re stuck with those people related to you by blood or marriage.
When someone refers to their kith and kin, she means her friends and family. Both words date back to Old English, with kin reaching back to the 700s. Originally referring to one’s family or race, kin narrowed to refer just to one’s blood relations. Your "next of kin" is your closest family member: spouse, child, parent, or sibling.
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a person having kinship with another or others“he's kin”
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synonyms:
family, kinsperson
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group of people related by blood or marriage
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synonyms:
clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe
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types:
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mishpachah, mishpocha
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
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family, family unit
primary social group; parents and children
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folks
your parents
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family tree, genealogy
successive generations of kin
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totem
a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
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Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel
twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob
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couple, match, mates
a pair of people who live together
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man and wife, marriage, married couple
two people who are married to each other
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ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
the lineage of an individual
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Lost Tribes
the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)
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type of:
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social group
people sharing some social relation
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related by blood
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synonyms:
akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous
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related
connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage
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related
Vocabulary lists containing kin
When her grandmother Miss Eula leaves Mississippi for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby Lavender misses their adventures, so they write letters to continue sharing their lives.
Twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob must overcome their grief and find their place in the world again following the unexpected death of Aunt May. Here are links to our lists for the novel: Part One, Part Two
Set in Nebraska during the late 19th century, this novel follows the lives of Nathaniel, a boy recovering from a farm injury, and John, an orphan adopted by Nathaniel's father to help work on the farm, as they form a friendship and help each other navigate through the challenges of small-town life.
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